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
Suheil Lizana
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10May 19, 2001View Suheil Lizana × Monica Poveda →02 BridgeOpen career →Monica Poveda
1 meeting01April 26, 2003View Monica Poveda × Andrea Koch Benvenuto →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Koch Benvenuto
1 meeting01February 3, 2011View Andrea Koch Benvenuto × Catalina Castano →04 BridgeOpen career →Catalina Castano
1 meeting01August 29, 2005View Catalina Castano × Serena Williams →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSuheil Lizana
- BridgeMonica Poveda
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSuheil Lizana
- BridgeMonica Poveda
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSuheil Lizana
- BridgeMonica Poveda
- BridgeJessica Roland Rosario
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSuheil Lizana
- BridgeMonica Poveda
- BridgeDaniela Olivera
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- 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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