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 Miao Zhou
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 3 meetings30May 12, 2008 — August 8, 2011View Serena Williams × Alona Bondarenko →02 BridgeOpen career →Alona Bondarenko
1 meeting10October 4, 2010View Alona Bondarenko × Yi Miao Zhou →03 DestinationOpen career →Yi Miao Zhou
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeYung Jan Chan
- DestinationYi Miao Zhou
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMonica Niculescu
- DestinationYi Miao Zhou
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLaura Robson
- DestinationYi Miao Zhou
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKurumi Nara
- DestinationYi Miao Zhou
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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