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
Tara Lambert
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 meeting01April 22, 2010View Tara Lambert × Bianca Botto →02 BridgeOpen career →Bianca Botto
1 meeting01February 4, 2011View Bianca Botto × Gisela Dulko →03 BridgeOpen career →Gisela Dulko
2 meetings02April 14, 2008 — January 19, 2009View Gisela Dulko × Serena Williams →04 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginTara Lambert
- BridgeAlejandra Granillo
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginTara Lambert
- BridgeAriana Rojas
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- 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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