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
Yu Hsien Liu
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 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting01January 16, 1995View Martina Hingis × Kyoko Nagatsuka →03 BridgeOpen career →Kyoko Nagatsuka
1 meeting10November 14, 1994View Kyoko Nagatsuka × Yu Hsien Liu →04 DestinationOpen career →Yu Hsien Liu
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
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeKyoko Nagatsuka
- DestinationYu Hsien Liu
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeKyoko Nagatsuka
- DestinationYu Hsien Liu
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLi Ling Chen
- DestinationYu Hsien Liu
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeKyoko Nagatsuka
- DestinationYu Hsien Liu
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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