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
Yi Jing Zhao
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 5 meetings50June 26, 2000 — January 13, 2003View Serena Williams × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting01February 9, 2015View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Misaki Doi →03 BridgeOpen career →Misaki Doi
1 meeting01September 19, 2011View Misaki Doi × Yi Jing Zhao →04 DestinationOpen career →Yi Jing Zhao
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
- BridgeVirginie Razzano
- BridgeMisaki Doi
- DestinationYi Jing Zhao
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgeMisaki Doi
- DestinationYi Jing Zhao
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMisaki Doi
- DestinationYi Jing Zhao
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeStephanie Foretz Gacon
- BridgeMisaki Doi
- DestinationYi Jing Zhao
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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