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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.

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

Serena Williams
reaches
Hiromi Abe

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

328 players examined
  1. 3 meetings30March 9, 2015 — March 5, 2018
    View Serena Williams × Zarina Diyas
  2. 1 meeting10June 16, 2025
    View Zarina Diyas × Hiromi Abe

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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