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
Julia Jehs
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 meeting10May 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting10April 27, 1998View Silvija Talaja × Tina Krizan →03 BridgeOpen career →Tina Krizan
1 meeting10February 7, 1994View Tina Krizan × Julia Jehs →04 DestinationOpen career →Julia Jehs
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
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeTina Krizan
- DestinationJulia Jehs
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeJenny Byrne
- DestinationJulia Jehs
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeTina Krizan
- DestinationJulia Jehs
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeJenny Byrne
- DestinationJulia Jehs
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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