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
Paola Stephen
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 meeting01April 29, 1997View Paola Stephen × Carmina Giraldo →02 BridgeOpen career →Carmina Giraldo
1 meeting01July 18, 1994View Carmina Giraldo × Anke Huber →03 BridgeOpen career →Anke Huber
13 meetings112May 1, 1995 — March 21, 2001View Anke Huber × 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.
- OriginPaola Stephen
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- BridgeAnke Huber
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPaola Stephen
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- BridgeAnke Huber
- BridgeJustine Henin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPaola Stephen
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- BridgeAnke Huber
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPaola Stephen
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- BridgeAnke Huber
- 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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