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
Hamidan Bibi
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 meeting01April 27, 2000View Hamidan Bibi × Luiza Biktyakova →02 BridgeOpen career →Luiza Biktyakova
1 meeting10April 25, 2000View Luiza Biktyakova × Davilyn Godinet →03 BridgeOpen career →Davilyn Godinet
1 meeting01February 26, 1999View Davilyn Godinet × Na Li →04 BridgeOpen career →Na Li
12 meetings111January 16, 2006 — March 17, 2014View Na Li × 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.
- OriginHamidan Bibi
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHamidan Bibi
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHamidan Bibi
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHamidan Bibi
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- 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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