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
Nilupul Goonasekera
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01January 31, 2008View Nilupul Goonasekera × Tatyana Ignatchenko →02 BridgeOpen career →Tatyana Ignatchenko
1 meeting01April 20, 2005View Tatyana Ignatchenko × Jie Zheng →03 BridgeOpen career →Jie Zheng
6 meetings06June 21, 2004 — June 25, 2012View Jie Zheng × Serena Williams →04 DestinationOpen career →Serena 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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