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
Eugenia Birioukova
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 17 meetings107May 10, 1999 — August 30, 2004View Serena Williams × Jennifer Capriati →02 BridgeOpen career →Jennifer Capriati
1 meeting10September 25, 1990View Jennifer Capriati × Misumi Miyauchi →03 BridgeOpen career →Misumi Miyauchi
1 meeting10July 15, 1991View Misumi Miyauchi × Eugenia Birioukova →04 DestinationOpen career →Eugenia Birioukova
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
- BridgeJanet Lee
- BridgeMisumi Miyauchi
- DestinationEugenia Birioukova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- DestinationEugenia Birioukova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- DestinationEugenia Birioukova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- DestinationEugenia Birioukova
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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