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
Ilze Hattingh
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 31 meetings1912January 19, 1998 — August 10, 2020View Serena Williams × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
1 meeting10March 18, 2019View Venus Williams × Dalila Jakupovic →03 BridgeOpen career →Dalila Jakupovic
1 meeting10April 21, 2017View Dalila Jakupovic × Ilze Hattingh →04 DestinationOpen career →Ilze Hattingh
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
- BridgeFrancesca Schiavone
- BridgeDalila Jakupovic
- DestinationIlze Hattingh
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnabel Medina Garrigues
- BridgePemra Ozgen
- DestinationIlze Hattingh
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSamantha Stosur
- BridgeDalila Jakupovic
- DestinationIlze Hattingh
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlona Bondarenko
- BridgePemra Ozgen
- DestinationIlze Hattingh
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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