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Eras

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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Serena Williams
reaches
G Robinson

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

4,978 players examined
  1. 3 meetings30August 14, 2000 — July 17, 2006
    View Serena Williams × Amy Frazier →
  2. 2 meetings02January 9, 1989 — August 7, 1989
    View Amy Frazier × Hana Mandlikova →
  3. 1 meeting10October 9, 1978
    View Hana Mandlikova × Jane Plackett →
  4. 1 meeting10January 7, 1980
    View Jane Plackett × Royce Romberg →
  5. 1 meeting10January 7, 1980
    View Royce Romberg × G Robinson →

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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