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
Paola Stephen
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 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
13 meetings121May 1, 1995 — March 21, 2001View Martina Hingis × Anke Huber →03 BridgeOpen career →Anke Huber
1 meeting10July 18, 1994View Anke Huber × Carmina Giraldo →04 BridgeOpen career →Carmina Giraldo
1 meeting10April 29, 1997View Carmina Giraldo × Paola Stephen →05 DestinationOpen career →Paola Stephen
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
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeMana Endo
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- DestinationPaola Stephen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeAnke Huber
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- DestinationPaola Stephen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgePaula Cabezas
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- DestinationPaola Stephen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeBarbara Castro
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- DestinationPaola Stephen
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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