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
Hsiao Han Chao
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 8 meetings53January 11, 1998 — October 30, 2001View Serena Williams × Sandrine Testud →02 BridgeOpen career →Sandrine Testud
1 meeting10October 14, 1996View Sandrine Testud × Mi Ra Jeon →03 BridgeOpen career →Mi Ra Jeon
1 meeting10March 7, 2002View Mi Ra Jeon × Hsiao Han Chao →04 DestinationOpen career →Hsiao Han Chao
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
- BridgeMariana Diaz Oliva
- BridgeSophie Ferguson
- DestinationHsiao Han Chao
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- BridgeSophie Ferguson
- DestinationHsiao Han Chao
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCristina Torrens Valero
- BridgeMi Ra Jeon
- DestinationHsiao Han Chao
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNadia Petrova
- BridgeSophie Ferguson
- DestinationHsiao Han Chao
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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