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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
Jean Rickson

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

4,985 players examined
  1. 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000
    View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →
  2. 2 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988
    View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →
  3. 5 meetings41January 20, 1969 — March 25, 1974
    View Chris Evert × Mary Ann Eisel →
  4. 1 meeting10May 27, 1968
    View Mary Ann Eisel × Margaret Lee →
  5. 1 meeting10April 8, 1968
    View Margaret Lee × Jean Rickson →

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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