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
Siri Mittet
reaches
Serena Williams
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 meeting10April 14, 1992View Siri Mittet × Maria Jose Likibi →02 BridgeOpen career →Maria Jose Likibi
1 meeting01April 13, 1992View Maria Jose Likibi × Tina Krizan →03 BridgeOpen career →Tina Krizan
1 meeting01April 27, 1998View Tina Krizan × Silvija Talaja →04 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting01May 24, 2004View Silvija Talaja × Serena Williams →05 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
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.
- OriginSiri Mittet
- BridgeMaria Jose Likibi
- BridgeTina Krizan
- BridgeRita Grande
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSiri Mittet
- BridgeMaria Jose Likibi
- BridgeTina Krizan
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSiri Mittet
- BridgeMaria Jose Likibi
- BridgeTina Krizan
- BridgeEmmanuelle Gagliardi
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSiri Mittet
- BridgeMaria Jose Likibi
- BridgeTina Krizan
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- DestinationSerena Williams
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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