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
Tu Dong
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 meeting10February 27, 1999View Tu Dong × Christina Wheeler →02 BridgeOpen career →Christina Wheeler
1 meeting01January 15, 2001View Christina Wheeler × Conchita Martinez →03 BridgeOpen career →Conchita Martinez
5 meetings05May 4, 1998 — May 12, 2003View Conchita Martinez × 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.
- OriginTu Dong
- BridgeChristina Wheeler
- BridgeTatiana Panova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginTu Dong
- BridgeChristina Wheeler
- BridgeKim Clijsters
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginTu Dong
- BridgeChristina Wheeler
- BridgeAnna Kournikova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginTu Dong
- BridgeChristina Wheeler
- BridgeJoannette Kruger
- 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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