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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
Catalina Padilla Udaeta
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 meeting01June 29, 2026View Serena Williams × Maya Joint →02 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
1 meeting10April 10, 2025View Maya Joint × Yuliana Monroy →03 BridgeOpen career →Yuliana Monroy
1 meeting01April 15, 2023View Yuliana Monroy × Martina Capurro Taborda →04 BridgeOpen career →Martina Capurro Taborda
1 meeting10April 12, 2023View Martina Capurro Taborda × Catalina Padilla Udaeta →05 DestinationOpen career →Catalina Padilla Udaeta
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.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeMelisa Morales
- DestinationCatalina Padilla Udaeta
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVirginie Razzano
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeMelisa Morales
- DestinationCatalina Padilla Udaeta
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNadia Petrova
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeMelisa Morales
- DestinationCatalina Padilla Udaeta
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeMelisa Morales
- DestinationCatalina Padilla Udaeta
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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