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
Zdenka Malkova
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 meeting10August 25, 1997View Martina Hingis × Tami Whitlinger Jones →03 BridgeOpen career →Tami Whitlinger Jones
1 meeting10April 6, 1992View Tami Whitlinger Jones × Zdenka Malkova →04 DestinationOpen career →Zdenka Malkova
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
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeTami Whitlinger Jones
- DestinationZdenka Malkova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeManon Bollegraf
- DestinationZdenka Malkova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeManon Bollegraf
- DestinationZdenka Malkova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeTami Whitlinger Jones
- DestinationZdenka Malkova
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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