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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
Serena Williams
reaches
Aschara Moranon
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 →13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting01October 10, 1994View Martina Hingis × Marianne Werdel Witmeyer →03 BridgeOpen career →Marianne Werdel Witmeyer
1 meeting10July 8, 1985View Marianne Werdel Witmeyer × Jean Hepner →04 BridgeOpen career →Jean Hepner
1 meeting10May 3, 1982View Jean Hepner × Aschara Moranon →05 DestinationOpen career →Aschara Moranon
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.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeSandra Cecchini
- BridgeJean Hepner
- DestinationAschara Moranon
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgeSandra Cecchini
- BridgeJean Hepner
- DestinationAschara Moranon
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMarianne Werdel Witmeyer
- BridgeJean Hepner
- DestinationAschara Moranon
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeMarianne Werdel Witmeyer
- BridgeJean Hepner
- DestinationAschara Moranon
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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