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
Jithmie Jayawickrema
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 meeting10February 1, 2008View Jithmie Jayawickrema × Ummarahmat Hummetova →02 BridgeOpen career →Ummarahmat Hummetova
1 meeting01April 21, 2005View Ummarahmat Hummetova × Dilyara Saidkhodjaeva →03 BridgeOpen career →Dilyara Saidkhodjaeva
1 meeting01September 29, 2008View Dilyara Saidkhodjaeva × Sabine Lisicki →04 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Lisicki
4 meetings13July 25, 2011 — March 23, 2015View Sabine Lisicki × 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.
- OriginJithmie Jayawickrema
- BridgeUmmarahmat Hummetova
- BridgeWei Ping Lee
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJithmie Jayawickrema
- BridgeUmmarahmat Hummetova
- BridgeWei Ping Lee
- BridgeJie Zheng
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJithmie Jayawickrema
- BridgeUmmarahmat Hummetova
- BridgeRutuja Bhosale
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJithmie Jayawickrema
- BridgeUmmarahmat Hummetova
- BridgeYekaterina Morozova
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- 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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