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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
Simona Arghire
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 meetings20March 18, 1999 — June 25, 2007View Serena Williams × Alicia Molik →02 BridgeOpen career →Alicia Molik
1 meeting10May 21, 2007View Alicia Molik × Leanne Baker →03 BridgeOpen career →Leanne Baker
1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Leanne Baker × Simona Arghire →04 DestinationOpen career →Simona Arghire
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeIlke Gers
- DestinationSimona Arghire
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeLeanne Baker
- DestinationSimona Arghire
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNicole Pratt
- BridgeSuchanun Viratprasert
- DestinationSimona Arghire
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- BridgeSuchanun Viratprasert
- DestinationSimona Arghire
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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