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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
Pamela Duran Vinueza
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 22, 2004View Pamela Duran Vinueza × Megan Moulton Levy →02 BridgeOpen career →Megan Moulton Levy
1 meeting10April 24, 2003View Megan Moulton Levy × Maria Fernanda Alvarez Teran →03Open career → 1 meeting01February 2, 2011View Maria Fernanda Alvarez Teran × Maria Irigoyen →04 BridgeOpen career →Maria Irigoyen
1 meeting01February 7, 2015View Maria Irigoyen × 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.
- OriginPamela Duran Vinueza
- BridgeMegan Moulton Levy
- BridgeValentina Castro
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPamela Duran Vinueza
- BridgeMegan Moulton Levy
- BridgeValentina Castro
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPamela Duran Vinueza
- BridgeSarah Tami Masi
- BridgeSonya Jeyaseelan
- BridgeJustine Henin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPamela Duran Vinueza
- BridgeSarah Tami Masi
- BridgeSonya Jeyaseelan
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- 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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