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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
Sagit Doron
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 →13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
2 meetings11August 28, 1995 — January 29, 1996View Martina Hingis × Gabriela Sabatini →03 BridgeOpen career →Gabriela Sabatini
1 meeting10July 15, 1984View Gabriela Sabatini × Li Lan Duan →04 BridgeOpen career →Li Lan Duan
1 meeting10July 20, 1986View Li Lan Duan × Sagit Doron →05 DestinationOpen career →Sagit Doron
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
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeGabriela Sabatini
- BridgeLi Lan Duan
- DestinationSagit Doron
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeGabriela Sabatini
- BridgeLi Lan Duan
- DestinationSagit Doron
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeAkiko Kijimuta
- BridgeLi Lan Duan
- DestinationSagit Doron
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeGabriela Sabatini
- BridgeLi Lan Duan
- DestinationSagit Doron
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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