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
Xinyu Jiang
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 meeting01October 16, 2023View Xinyu Jiang × Sara Sorribes Tormo →02 BridgeOpen career →Sara Sorribes Tormo
3 meetings12May 2, 2016 — September 11, 2017View Sara Sorribes Tormo × Samantha Stosur →03 BridgeOpen career →Samantha Stosur
12 meetings48August 11, 2008 — September 29, 2014View Samantha Stosur × 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.
- OriginXinyu Jiang
- BridgeSara Sorribes Tormo
- BridgeBarbora Strycova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginXinyu Jiang
- BridgeSara Sorribes Tormo
- BridgeShuai Peng
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginXinyu Jiang
- BridgeSara Sorribes Tormo
- BridgeAna Ivanovic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginXinyu Jiang
- BridgeSara Sorribes Tormo
- BridgePauline Parmentier
- 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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