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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
Serena Williams
reaches
Arianna Zucchini
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 →10 meetings82May 27, 2002 — January 19, 2015View Serena Williams × Vera Zvonareva →02 BridgeOpen career →Vera Zvonareva
1 meeting01February 8, 2026View Vera Zvonareva × Victoria Mboko →03 BridgeOpen career →Victoria Mboko
1 meeting10May 6, 2025View Victoria Mboko × Arianna Zucchini →04 DestinationOpen career →Arianna Zucchini
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.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMadison Keys
- BridgeVictoria Mboko
- DestinationArianna Zucchini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKarolina Pliskova
- BridgeVictoria Mboko
- DestinationArianna Zucchini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEkaterina Alexandrova
- BridgeVictoria Mboko
- DestinationArianna Zucchini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeElise Mertens
- BridgeVictoria Mboko
- DestinationArianna Zucchini
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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