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
Serena Williams
reaches
Aida Khalatian
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 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
5 meetings32April 19, 1995 — March 29, 1999View Martina Hingis × Natalia Zvereva →03 BridgeOpen career →Natalia Zvereva
1 meeting10October 9, 1989View Natalia Zvereva × Aida Khalatian →04 DestinationOpen career →Aida Khalatian
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- DestinationAida Khalatian
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- DestinationAida Khalatian
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- DestinationAida Khalatian
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- DestinationAida Khalatian
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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