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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Yee Hong Tan
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

2,334 players examined
  1. 1 meeting10February 19, 1998
    View Yee Hong Tan × Mina Abdul Rahman
  2. 1 meeting01February 17, 1998
    View Mina Abdul Rahman × Uzma Khan
  3. 1 meeting01February 23, 1999
    View Uzma Khan × Janet Lee
  4. 1 meeting01January 15, 2001
    View Janet Lee × Serena 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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