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
Lebogang Seitshiro
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 meeting01March 26, 1996View Lebogang Seitshiro × Senait Gebreail →02 BridgeOpen career →Senait Gebreail
1 meeting01March 28, 1996View Senait Gebreail × Magdalena Feistel →03 BridgeOpen career →Magdalena Feistel
1 meeting01July 25, 1998View Magdalena Feistel × Barbara Schett →04 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Schett
3 meetings03August 13, 2001 — May 26, 2003View Barbara Schett × 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.
- OriginLebogang Seitshiro
- BridgeSenait Gebreail
- BridgeMagdalena Feistel
- BridgeJennifer Capriati
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLebogang Seitshiro
- BridgeSenait Gebreail
- BridgeMagdalena Feistel
- BridgeMary Pierce
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLebogang Seitshiro
- BridgeSenait Gebreail
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLebogang Seitshiro
- BridgeSenait Gebreail
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- 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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