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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
Penelope Abreu
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 meeting10August 7, 2025View Maya Joint × Beatriz Haddad Maia →03 BridgeOpen career →Beatriz Haddad Maia
2 meetings20February 8, 2018 — April 13, 2022View Beatriz Haddad Maia × Kirsten Andrea Weedon →04 BridgeOpen career →Kirsten Andrea Weedon
1 meeting10February 3, 2016View Kirsten Andrea Weedon × Penelope Abreu →05 DestinationOpen career →Penelope Abreu
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
- BridgeMaya Joint
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- DestinationPenelope Abreu
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeBeatriz Haddad Maia
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- DestinationPenelope Abreu
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- DestinationPenelope Abreu
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeMariella Calderon
- DestinationPenelope Abreu
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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