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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
Si Ying Julienne Keong
reaches
Serena Williams
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 →1 meeting01February 3, 2010View Si Ying Julienne Keong × Chin Bee Khoo →02 BridgeOpen career →Chin Bee Khoo
1 meeting01April 23, 2003View Chin Bee Khoo × Iroda Tulyaganova →03 BridgeOpen career →Iroda Tulyaganova
2 meetings02March 21, 2001 — March 19, 2003View Iroda Tulyaganova × Serena Williams →04 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
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.
- OriginSi Ying Julienne Keong
- BridgeChin Bee Khoo
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationSerena Williams
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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