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
Irawati Iskandar
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 1 meeting10January 15, 2001View Serena Williams × Janet Lee →02 BridgeOpen career →Janet Lee
1 meeting10February 24, 1999View Janet Lee × Lilia Biktyakova →03 BridgeOpen career →Lilia Biktyakova
1 meeting01February 26, 1999View Lilia Biktyakova × Irawati Iskandar →04 DestinationOpen career →Irawati Iskandar
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJanet Lee
- BridgeUzma Khan
- DestinationIrawati Iskandar
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJanet Lee
- BridgeYik Hui Leow
- DestinationIrawati Iskandar
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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