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
Jo Smedley
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meeting10April 25, 1996View Martina Hingis × Andrea Temesvari →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Temesvari
1 meeting10May 14, 1984View Andrea Temesvari × Rina Einy →04 BridgeOpen career →Rina Einy
1 meeting10April 14, 1980View Rina Einy × Jo Smedley →05 DestinationOpen career →Jo Smedley
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeRaffaella Reggi Concato
- BridgeCathy Drury
- DestinationJo Smedley
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeRaffaella Reggi Concato
- BridgeRina Einy
- DestinationJo Smedley
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeBelinda Cordwell
- BridgeRina Einy
- DestinationJo Smedley
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeBelinda Cordwell
- BridgeJoy Tacon
- DestinationJo Smedley
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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