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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
Robin Kahn
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 →2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →02 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
1 meeting10November 26, 1984View Steffi Graf × Lea Antonoplis →03 BridgeOpen career →Lea Antonoplis
1 meeting10May 4, 1974View Lea Antonoplis × Robin Kahn →04 DestinationOpen career →Robin Kahn
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
- BridgeKatrina Adams
- BridgeLea Antonoplis
- DestinationRobin Kahn
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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