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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
Madeline Sanchez
reaches
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
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01April 25, 2001View Madeline Sanchez × Maria Vento Kabchi →02 BridgeOpen career →Maria Vento Kabchi
2 meetings02February 12, 2001 — January 2, 2006View Maria Vento Kabchi × Martina Hingis →03 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
13 meetings67March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Martina Hingis × Serena Williams →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMadeline Sanchez
- BridgeMaria Vento Kabchi
- BridgeJustine Henin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMadeline Sanchez
- BridgeMaria Vento Kabchi
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMadeline Sanchez
- BridgeMaria Vento Kabchi
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMadeline Sanchez
- BridgeMaria Vento Kabchi
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- 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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