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
Karina Heck
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 1 meeting10June 15, 1998View Serena Williams × Naoko Sawamatsu →02 BridgeOpen career →Naoko Sawamatsu
1 meeting10December 4, 1988View Naoko Sawamatsu × Jeong Myung Lee →03 BridgeOpen career →Jeong Myung Lee
1 meeting10July 26, 1987View Jeong Myung Lee × Monica Wiese →04 BridgeOpen career →Monica Wiese
1 meeting10July 26, 1987View Monica Wiese × Karina Heck →05 DestinationOpen career →Karina Heck
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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