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
Sahar Najaei
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
1 meeting10January 30, 2008View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Ling Zhang →03 BridgeOpen career →Ling Zhang
1 meeting10February 8, 2014View Ling Zhang × Marian Jade Capadocia →04 BridgeOpen career →Marian Jade Capadocia
1 meeting10February 5, 2013View Marian Jade Capadocia × Sahar Najaei →05 DestinationOpen career →Sahar Najaei
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
- BridgeDaniela Hantuchova
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeMarian Jade Capadocia
- DestinationSahar Najaei
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeMarian Jade Capadocia
- DestinationSahar Najaei
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeYung Jan Chan
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeMarian Jade Capadocia
- DestinationSahar Najaei
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeMarian Jade Capadocia
- DestinationSahar Najaei
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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