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
Vajira Premaratne
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 2 meetings20January 17, 2000 — February 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Sabine Appelmans →02 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Appelmans
1 meeting10December 4, 1988View Sabine Appelmans × Il Soon Kim →03 BridgeOpen career →Il Soon Kim
1 meeting10May 7, 1992View Il Soon Kim × Vajira Premaratne →04 DestinationOpen career →Vajira Premaratne
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeIl Soon Kim
- DestinationVajira Premaratne
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeIl Soon Kim
- DestinationVajira Premaratne
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeFrancesca LaO
- DestinationVajira Premaratne
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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