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
Yee Loon Goh
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 1 meeting10January 17, 2005View Serena Williams × Sania Mirza →02 BridgeOpen career →Sania Mirza
1 meeting10February 5, 2010View Sania Mirza × Jawairiah Noordin →03 BridgeOpen career →Jawairiah Noordin
1 meeting10April 11, 2016View Jawairiah Noordin × Nelli Buyuklianova →04 BridgeOpen career →Nelli Buyuklianova
1 meeting10April 15, 2016View Nelli Buyuklianova × Yee Loon Goh →05 DestinationOpen career →Yee Loon Goh
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeYulia Putintseva
- BridgeJawairiah Noordin
- BridgeNelli Buyuklianova
- DestinationYee Loon Goh
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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