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
Stefania Dalla Valle
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 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
2 meetings11October 24, 1994 — May 15, 1995View Martina Hingis × Sabine Hack →03 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Hack
1 meeting10August 1, 1988View Sabine Hack × Stefania Dalla Valle →04 DestinationOpen career →Stefania Dalla Valle
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
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeSabine Hack
- DestinationStefania Dalla Valle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeSabine Hack
- DestinationStefania Dalla Valle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeClare Wood
- DestinationStefania Dalla Valle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeJana Pospisilova
- DestinationStefania Dalla Valle
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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