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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
Nina Khrisanova
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 →5 meetings50June 23, 2008 — February 11, 2013View Serena Williams × Urszula Radwanska →02 BridgeOpen career →Urszula Radwanska
1 meeting10February 2, 2008View Urszula Radwanska × Tatia Mikadze →03 BridgeOpen career →Tatia Mikadze
1 meeting10July 18, 2011View Tatia Mikadze × Nina Khrisanova →04 DestinationOpen career →Nina Khrisanova
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnna Tatishvili
- BridgeTatia Mikadze
- DestinationNina Khrisanova
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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