Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Silvia Hegedis
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01January 28, 2002View Silvia Hegedis × Melanie Marois →02 BridgeOpen career →Melanie Marois
1 meeting01August 11, 2003View Melanie Marois × Emilie Loit →03 BridgeOpen career →Emilie Loit
2 meetings02January 13, 2003 — February 9, 2009View Emilie Loit × Serena Williams →04 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSilvia Hegedis
- BridgeMelanie Marois
- BridgeKimberly Po Messerli
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSilvia Hegedis
- BridgeMelanie Marois
- BridgeIva Majoli
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSilvia Hegedis
- BridgeMelanie Marois
- BridgeMartina Sucha
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSilvia Hegedis
- BridgeMelanie Marois
- BridgeJie Zheng
- DestinationSerena Williams
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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