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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.
Shortest path found
Jasmina Kajtazovic
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10May 6, 2011View Jasmina Kajtazovic × Nune Khachatryan →02 BridgeOpen career →Nune Khachatryan
1 meeting01April 21, 2012View Nune Khachatryan × Menna El Nagdy →03 BridgeOpen career →Menna El Nagdy
1 meeting01April 21, 2010View Menna El Nagdy × Cagla Buyukakcay →04 BridgeOpen career →Cagla Buyukakcay
1 meeting10May 29, 2017View Cagla Buyukakcay × Mirjana Lucic →05 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03January 11, 1998 — January 16, 2017View Mirjana Lucic × 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.
- OriginJasmina Kajtazovic
- BridgeNune Khachatryan
- BridgeMenna El Nagdy
- BridgeCagla Buyukakcay
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJasmina Kajtazovic
- BridgeNune Khachatryan
- BridgeMenna El Nagdy
- BridgeCagla Buyukakcay
- BridgeDaniela Hantuchova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJasmina Kajtazovic
- BridgeNune Khachatryan
- BridgeMenna El Nagdy
- BridgeCagla Buyukakcay
- BridgeRoberta Vinci
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJasmina Kajtazovic
- BridgeNune Khachatryan
- BridgeMenna El Nagdy
- BridgeCagla Buyukakcay
- BridgeSvetlana Kuznetsova
- 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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