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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
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Suchanun Viratprasert
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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 meetings50August 31, 1998 — September 16, 2002View Serena Williams × Nicole Pratt →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicole Pratt
1 meeting01July 10, 2004View Nicole Pratt × Suchanun Viratprasert →03 DestinationOpen career →Suchanun Viratprasert
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- DestinationSuchanun Viratprasert
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnca Barna
- DestinationSuchanun Viratprasert
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJanet Lee
- DestinationSuchanun Viratprasert
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Dokic
- DestinationSuchanun Viratprasert
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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