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
Arati Ponnappa
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
4 meetings31April 1, 1996 — January 19, 1998View Martina Hingis × Yayuk Basuki →03 BridgeOpen career →Yayuk Basuki
1 meeting10March 12, 1997View Yayuk Basuki × Arati Ponnappa →04 DestinationOpen career →Arati Ponnappa
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
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeTzu Ting Weng
- DestinationArati Ponnappa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeShi Ting Wang
- DestinationArati Ponnappa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeYayuk Basuki
- DestinationArati Ponnappa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeShi Ting Wang
- DestinationArati Ponnappa
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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