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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
Ylona Georgiana Ghioroaie
reaches
Serena Williams
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
01Open career → 1 meeting01October 16, 2023View Ylona Georgiana Ghioroaie × Anna-Lena Friedsam →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna-Lena Friedsam
2 meetings02May 25, 2015 — May 9, 2016View Anna-Lena Friedsam × Serena Williams →03 DestinationOpen career →Serena 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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