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
Junko Nishida
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 meeting01September 8, 1997View Junko Nishida × Yumi Yokoi →02 BridgeOpen career →Yumi Yokoi
1 meeting01September 8, 1997View Yumi Yokoi × Shiho Hisamatsu →03 BridgeOpen career →Shiho Hisamatsu
1 meeting01September 7, 1998View Shiho Hisamatsu × Alicia Molik →04 BridgeOpen career →Alicia Molik
2 meetings02March 18, 1999 — June 25, 2007View Alicia Molik × 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.
- OriginJunko Nishida
- BridgeYumi Yokoi
- BridgeShiho Hisamatsu
- BridgeEvie Dominikovic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJunko Nishida
- BridgeYumi Yokoi
- BridgeShiho Hisamatsu
- BridgeMarta Marrero
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJunko Nishida
- BridgeYumi Yokoi
- BridgeKeiko Taguchi
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJunko Nishida
- BridgeYumi Yokoi
- BridgeKeiko Taguchi
- BridgeNa Li
- 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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