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
Y kit Nicole Tan
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 meetings20March 19, 2012 — May 12, 2014View Serena Williams × Shuai Zhang →02 BridgeOpen career →Shuai Zhang
1 meeting10February 6, 2019View Shuai Zhang × Abigail Tere Apisah →03 BridgeOpen career →Abigail Tere Apisah
1 meeting10July 21, 2017View Abigail Tere Apisah × Y kit Nicole Tan →04 DestinationOpen career →Y kit Nicole Tan
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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