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
Zani Barnard
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 meeting01February 8, 2019View Zani Barnard × Ana Filipa Santos →02 BridgeOpen career →Ana Filipa Santos
1 meeting01February 7, 2019View Ana Filipa Santos × Eleonora Molinaro →03 BridgeOpen career →Eleonora Molinaro
1 meeting10February 5, 2020View Eleonora Molinaro × Johanna Larsson →04 BridgeOpen career →Johanna Larsson
3 meetings03April 20, 2013 — August 29, 2016View Johanna Larsson × 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.
- OriginZani Barnard
- BridgeAna Filipa Santos
- BridgeEleonora Molinaro
- BridgeNina Stojanovic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginZani Barnard
- BridgeAna Filipa Santos
- BridgeEleonora Molinaro
- BridgeTamara Zidansek
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginZani Barnard
- BridgeAna Filipa Santos
- BridgeNefisa Berberovic
- BridgeSloane Stephens
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginZani Barnard
- BridgeAna Filipa Santos
- BridgeNefisa Berberovic
- BridgeKaja Juvan
- 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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