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
Chisayo Ito
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 2 meetings20March 18, 1999 — June 25, 2007View Serena Williams × Alicia Molik →02 BridgeOpen career →Alicia Molik
1 meeting10September 7, 1998View Alicia Molik × Riei Kawamata →03 BridgeOpen career →Riei Kawamata
1 meeting10September 6, 1999View Riei Kawamata × Chisayo Ito →04 DestinationOpen career →Chisayo Ito
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
- BridgeOrawan Wongkamalasai
- DestinationChisayo Ito
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeKiyoko Yazawa
- DestinationChisayo Ito
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeSeiko Okamoto
- DestinationChisayo Ito
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeAyami Takase
- DestinationChisayo Ito
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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