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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
Chloe Weekes
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meeting01April 18, 2019View Chloe Weekes × Breana Stampfli →02 BridgeOpen career →Breana Stampfli
1 meeting01July 20, 2018View Breana Stampfli × Noelia Zeballos →03 BridgeOpen career →Noelia Zeballos
1 meeting01February 9, 2017View Noelia Zeballos × Bianca Andreescu →04 BridgeOpen career →Bianca Andreescu
2 meetings20August 5, 2019 — August 26, 2019View Bianca Andreescu × Serena Williams →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginChloe Weekes
- BridgeZulay Castaneda
- BridgeAnastasia Iamachkine
- BridgeNadia Podoroska
- 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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