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
Petroena Fong
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 5 meetings50June 26, 2000 — January 13, 2003View Serena Williams × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
5 meetings41February 7, 2005 — February 3, 2010View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Akgul Amanmuradova →03 BridgeOpen career →Akgul Amanmuradova
1 meeting10April 20, 2005View Akgul Amanmuradova × Shaza Tinawi →04 BridgeOpen career →Shaza Tinawi
1 meeting10April 13, 2001View Shaza Tinawi × Petroena Fong →05 DestinationOpen career →Petroena Fong
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
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeCzarina Mae Arevalo
- BridgeShaza Tinawi
- DestinationPetroena Fong
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeValeria Khazova
- BridgeShaza Tinawi
- DestinationPetroena Fong
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTzipi Obziler
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeShaza Tinawi
- DestinationPetroena Fong
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVirginie Razzano
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeShaza Tinawi
- DestinationPetroena Fong
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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