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
Soo Ok Kim
reaches
Serena Williams
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 1 meeting10October 6, 1985View Soo Ok Kim × Maria Lindstrom →02 BridgeOpen career →Maria Lindstrom
2 meetings11March 9, 1987 — March 30, 1987View Maria Lindstrom × Jana Novotna →03 BridgeOpen career →Jana Novotna
1 meeting01October 5, 1998View Jana Novotna × Serena Williams →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSoo Ok Kim
- BridgeMaria Lindstrom
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSoo Ok Kim
- BridgeMaria Lindstrom
- BridgeBarbara Paulus
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSoo Ok Kim
- BridgeMaria Lindstrom
- BridgeSilvia Farina Elia
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSoo Ok Kim
- BridgeGabriela Sabatini
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- 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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