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
Ruien Zhang
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 1 meeting01June 29, 2026View Serena Williams × Maya Joint →02 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
1 meeting01August 17, 2025View Maya Joint × Eva Lys →03 BridgeOpen career →Eva Lys
1 meeting10September 24, 2025View Eva Lys × Ruien Zhang →04 DestinationOpen career →Ruien Zhang
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
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeYuliya Hatouka
- DestinationRuien Zhang
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- BridgeEva Lys
- DestinationRuien Zhang
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- BridgeEva Lys
- DestinationRuien Zhang
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- BridgeEva Lys
- DestinationRuien Zhang
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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