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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
Marie Benoit
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 meeting01July 22, 2024View Marie Benoit × Anna Bondar →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna Bondar
1 meeting01January 17, 2022View Anna Bondar × Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova →03 BridgeOpen career →Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
6 meetings06May 24, 2010 — June 27, 2016View Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova × Serena Williams →04 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMarie Benoit
- BridgeAnna Bondar
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarie Benoit
- BridgeAnna Bondar
- BridgePetra Kvitova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarie Benoit
- BridgeAnna Bondar
- BridgeKristina Mladenovic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarie Benoit
- BridgeAnna Bondar
- BridgeAjla Tomljanovic
- 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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