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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
Tamachan Momkoonthod
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →14 meetings104July 26, 2004 — August 11, 2014View Serena Williams × Jelena Jankovic →02 BridgeOpen career →Jelena Jankovic
1 meeting10February 21, 2011View Jelena Jankovic × Fatma Al Nabhani →03 BridgeOpen career →Fatma Al Nabhani
1 meeting10February 1, 2012View Fatma Al Nabhani × Anna Clarice Patrimonio →04 BridgeOpen career →Anna Clarice Patrimonio
1 meeting10February 4, 2020View Anna Clarice Patrimonio × Katrina Lai →05 BridgeOpen career →Katrina Lai
1 meeting01February 7, 2020View Katrina Lai × Tamachan Momkoonthod →06 DestinationOpen career →Tamachan Momkoonthod
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBarbora Strycova
- BridgeFatma Al Nabhani
- BridgeAnna Clarice Patrimonio
- BridgeKatrina Lai
- DestinationTamachan Momkoonthod
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeShuai Peng
- BridgeFatma Al Nabhani
- BridgeAnna Clarice Patrimonio
- BridgeKatrina Lai
- DestinationTamachan Momkoonthod
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeShahar Peer
- BridgeFatma Al Nabhani
- BridgeAnna Clarice Patrimonio
- BridgeKatrina Lai
- DestinationTamachan Momkoonthod
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMonica Niculescu
- BridgeFatma Al Nabhani
- BridgeAnna Clarice Patrimonio
- BridgeKatrina Lai
- DestinationTamachan Momkoonthod
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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