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
Lydia Steinbach
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 14 meetings86August 27, 2001 — January 18, 2010View Serena Williams × Justine Henin →02 BridgeOpen career →Justine Henin
1 meeting10August 13, 2007View Justine Henin × Zi Yan →03 BridgeOpen career →Zi Yan
1 meeting01November 3, 2003View Zi Yan × Lydia Steinbach →04 DestinationOpen career →Lydia Steinbach
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
- BridgeElena Tatarkova
- DestinationLydia Steinbach
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeElena Tatarkova
- DestinationLydia Steinbach
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeElena Tatarkova
- DestinationLydia Steinbach
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeElena Tatarkova
- DestinationLydia Steinbach
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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