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
Yoko Mitsuko
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 meeting10May 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting01May 17, 1993View Silvija Talaja × Patty Oreilly →03 BridgeOpen career →Patty Oreilly
1 meeting10September 9, 1985View Patty Oreilly × Micki Schillig →04 BridgeOpen career →Micki Schillig
1 meeting10October 8, 1984View Micki Schillig × Yoko Mitsuko →05 DestinationOpen career →Yoko Mitsuko
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLori Mcneil
- BridgeMicki Schillig
- DestinationYoko Mitsuko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeRaffaella Reggi Concato
- BridgeMicki Schillig
- DestinationYoko Mitsuko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLori Mcneil
- BridgeMicki Schillig
- DestinationYoko Mitsuko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLouise Allen
- BridgeMicki Schillig
- DestinationYoko Mitsuko
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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