2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/133708The Hayman-Wu theorem states that the preimage of a line or circle L under a conformal mapping from the unit disc to a simply-connected domain U has total Euclidean length bounded by an absolute constant. The best possible constant is known to lie in the interval [pi^2, 4 pi), thanks to work of Øyma and Rohde. Earlier, Brown Flinn showed that the total length is at most pi^2 in the special case in which U contains L. Let r be the anti-Möbius map that fixes L pointwise. In this note we extend the sharp bound pi^2 to the case where each connected component of the intersection of U with r(U) is bounded by one arc of U and its image under r. We also strengthen the bounds slightly by replacing Euclidean length with the strictly larger spherical length restricted to the unit disc.9 pages, 1 postscript figure. Invited submission to Computational Methods and Function Theory, special issue in honour of Walter HaymanComplex Variables30C35; 30C75, 52A55text