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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
Mika Dagan Fruchtman
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10January 16, 2012View Serena Williams × Greta Arn →02 BridgeOpen career →Greta Arn
1 meeting10February 8, 2013View Greta Arn × Dea Herdzelas →03 BridgeOpen career →Dea Herdzelas
1 meeting10April 14, 2023View Dea Herdzelas × Mika Dagan Fruchtman →04 DestinationOpen career →Mika Dagan Fruchtman
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeDea Herdzelas
- DestinationMika Dagan Fruchtman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMandy Minella
- BridgeDea Herdzelas
- DestinationMika Dagan Fruchtman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTimea Babos
- BridgeDea Herdzelas
- DestinationMika Dagan Fruchtman
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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