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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
Marinet Morgan
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 →2 meetings20March 18, 1999 — June 25, 2007View Serena Williams × Alicia Molik →02 BridgeOpen career →Alicia Molik
1 meeting10March 2, 1998View Alicia Molik × Lisa Mcshea →03 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Mcshea
2 meetings20April 13, 1998View Lisa Mcshea × Boglarka Berecz →04 BridgeOpen career →Boglarka Berecz
1 meeting10April 13, 1998View Boglarka Berecz × Marinet Morgan →05 DestinationOpen career →Marinet Morgan
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
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeShelley Stephens
- BridgeBoglarka Berecz
- DestinationMarinet Morgan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEmmanuelle Gagliardi
- BridgeLisa Mcshea
- BridgeBoglarka Berecz
- DestinationMarinet Morgan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeLisa Mcshea
- BridgeBoglarka Berecz
- DestinationMarinet Morgan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeVanessa Kendall
- BridgeBoglarka Berecz
- DestinationMarinet Morgan
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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