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
Jill Smoller
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 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10October 3, 1994View Martina Hingis × Patty Fendick →03 BridgeOpen career →Patty Fendick
1 meeting10June 26, 1989View Patty Fendick × Jill Smoller →04 DestinationOpen career →Jill Smoller
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
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgeSilke Meier
- DestinationJill Smoller
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeRadomira Zrubakova
- DestinationJill Smoller
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeSilke Meier
- DestinationJill Smoller
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeRadomira Zrubakova
- DestinationJill Smoller
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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