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
Oksana Lifanova
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 meeting01July 23, 1984View Oksana Lifanova × Viktoria Milvidskaia →02 BridgeOpen career →Viktoria Milvidskaia
2 meetings02October 1, 1990 — December 31, 1990View Viktoria Milvidskaia × Rachel Mcquillan →03 BridgeOpen career →Rachel Mcquillan
1 meeting01May 28, 2001View Rachel Mcquillan × Martina Hingis →04 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
13 meetings67March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Martina Hingis × 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.
- OriginOksana Lifanova
- BridgeViktoria Milvidskaia
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginOksana Lifanova
- BridgeViktoria Milvidskaia
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- BridgeJustine Henin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginOksana Lifanova
- BridgeViktoria Milvidskaia
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginOksana Lifanova
- BridgeViktoria Milvidskaia
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- 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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