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
Veronika Babayan
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 meeting01April 22, 2004View Veronika Babayan × Amina Rakhim →02 BridgeOpen career →Amina Rakhim
1 meeting01February 2, 2008View Amina Rakhim × Ye Ra Lee →03 BridgeOpen career →Ye Ra Lee
1 meeting01February 6, 2009View Ye Ra Lee × Tamarine Tanasugarn →04 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
5 meetings05June 26, 2000 — January 13, 2003View Tamarine Tanasugarn × 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.
- OriginVeronika Babayan
- BridgeAmina Rakhim
- BridgeYe Ra Lee
- BridgeEvie Dominikovic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginVeronika Babayan
- BridgeAmina Rakhim
- BridgeYe Ra Lee
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginVeronika Babayan
- BridgeAmina Rakhim
- BridgeYe Ra Lee
- BridgeSamantha Stosur
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginVeronika Babayan
- BridgeAmina Rakhim
- BridgeYe Ra Lee
- BridgeSania Mirza
- 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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