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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
Elena Pridankina
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 meeting01June 29, 2026View Serena Williams × Maya Joint →02 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
2 meetings11October 20, 2025 — May 5, 2026View Maya Joint × Viktorija Golubic →03 BridgeOpen career →Viktorija Golubic
1 meeting10October 27, 2025View Viktorija Golubic × Elena Pridankina →04 DestinationOpen career →Elena Pridankina
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
- BridgeMaya Joint
- DestinationElena Pridankina
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeCaroline Dolehide
- DestinationElena Pridankina
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKamilla Rakhimova
- DestinationElena Pridankina
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSamantha Stosur
- BridgeViktorija Golubic
- DestinationElena Pridankina
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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