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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
Lumay Diaz Hernandez
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
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01February 4, 2010View Lumay Diaz Hernandez × Ana Clara Duarte →02 BridgeOpen career →Ana Clara Duarte
1 meeting10February 4, 2011View Ana Clara Duarte × Mariana Duque Marino →03 BridgeOpen career →Mariana Duque Marino
2 meetings02June 7, 2010 — July 8, 2013View Mariana Duque Marino × Mirjana Lucic →04 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03January 11, 1998 — January 16, 2017View Mirjana Lucic × Serena Williams →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginLumay Diaz Hernandez
- BridgeAna Clara Duarte
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLumay Diaz Hernandez
- BridgeAna Clara Duarte
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLumay Diaz Hernandez
- BridgeAna Clara Duarte
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLumay Diaz Hernandez
- BridgeAna Clara Duarte
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgeNadia Petrova
- 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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