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
Yo Lan Liu
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01March 27, 1972View Yo Lan Liu × A Slabbert →02 BridgeOpen career →A Slabbert
1 meeting01March 27, 1972View A Slabbert × Rosalba Vido →03 BridgeOpen career →Rosalba Vido
2 meetings02March 27, 1972 — August 15, 1972View Rosalba Vido × Virginia Wade →04 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
1 meeting01February 5, 1985View Virginia Wade × Steffi Graf →05 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Steffi Graf × Serena Williams →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginYo Lan Liu
- BridgeA Slabbert
- BridgeRosalba Vido
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginYo Lan Liu
- BridgeA Slabbert
- BridgeRosalba Vido
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginYo Lan Liu
- BridgeA Slabbert
- BridgeRosalba Vido
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginYo Lan Liu
- BridgeA Slabbert
- BridgeRosalba Vido
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- 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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