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
Lebogang Seitshiro
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 3 meetings30August 13, 2001 — May 26, 2003View Serena Williams × Barbara Schett →02 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Schett
1 meeting10July 25, 1998View Barbara Schett × Magdalena Feistel →03 BridgeOpen career →Magdalena Feistel
1 meeting10March 28, 1996View Magdalena Feistel × Senait Gebreail →04 BridgeOpen career →Senait Gebreail
1 meeting10March 26, 1996View Senait Gebreail × Lebogang Seitshiro →05 DestinationOpen career →Lebogang Seitshiro
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
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeJoana Pedroso
- BridgeSenait Gebreail
- DestinationLebogang Seitshiro
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeSenait Gebreail
- DestinationLebogang Seitshiro
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeSenait Gebreail
- DestinationLebogang Seitshiro
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJennifer Capriati
- BridgeMagdalena Feistel
- BridgeSenait Gebreail
- DestinationLebogang Seitshiro
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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