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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

Charmaine Shi Yi Seah
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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

394 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01February 10, 2017
    View Khim Iglupas × Naomi Osaka
  2. 4 meetings31March 19, 2018 — February 8, 2021
    View Naomi Osaka × 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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