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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
Nina Radovanovic
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 meeting01February 24, 2025View Nina Radovanovic × Astrid Lew Yan Foon →02 BridgeOpen career →Astrid Lew Yan Foon
1 meeting01October 27, 2025View Astrid Lew Yan Foon × Linda Fruhvirtova →03 BridgeOpen career →Linda Fruhvirtova
1 meeting01September 15, 2025View Linda Fruhvirtova × Maya Joint →04 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
1 meeting10June 29, 2026View Maya Joint × Serena Williams →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginNina Radovanovic
- BridgeAstrid Lew Yan Foon
- BridgeLinda Fruhvirtova
- BridgeBethanie Mattek Sands
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNina Radovanovic
- BridgeAstrid Lew Yan Foon
- BridgeLinda Fruhvirtova
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNina Radovanovic
- BridgeAstrid Lew Yan Foon
- BridgeLinda Fruhvirtova
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNina Radovanovic
- BridgeAstrid Lew Yan Foon
- BridgeLinda Fruhvirtova
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- 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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