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
Marina Lidiya
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 2 meetings20May 14, 2012 — August 26, 2013View Serena Williams × Galina Voskoboeva →02 BridgeOpen career →Galina Voskoboeva
1 meeting10February 6, 2009View Galina Voskoboeva × Zi Jun Yang →03 BridgeOpen career →Zi Jun Yang
1 meeting10February 3, 2010View Zi Jun Yang × Kim Sadi →04 BridgeOpen career →Kim Sadi
1 meeting10February 2, 2008View Kim Sadi × Marina Lidiya →05 DestinationOpen career →Marina Lidiya
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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