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
Sonoe Yonezawa
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 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting01June 20, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Kumiko Okamoto →03 BridgeOpen career →Kumiko Okamoto
1 meeting01October 23, 1978View Kumiko Okamoto × Sonoe Yonezawa →04 DestinationOpen career →Sonoe Yonezawa
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
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- DestinationSonoe Yonezawa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- DestinationSonoe Yonezawa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeSusan Mascarin
- DestinationSonoe Yonezawa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- DestinationSonoe Yonezawa
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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