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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.

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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Serena Williams
reaches
Elena Osuna

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

4,981 players examined
  1. 3 meetings21May 4, 1998 — February 7, 2000
    View Serena Williams × Nathalie Tauziat →
  2. 2 meetings11May 19, 1986 — May 4, 1987
    View Nathalie Tauziat × Patricia Medrado →
  3. 1 meeting10October 20, 1975
    View Patricia Medrado × Gina Diaz Ponce →
  4. 1 meeting10April 5, 1971
    View Gina Diaz Ponce × Olga Montano →
  5. 1 meeting10April 7, 1969
    View Olga Montano × Elena Osuna →

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.

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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