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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
Valerie Glozman
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 →4 meetings22May 5, 2014 — August 8, 2022View Serena Williams × Belinda Bencic →02 BridgeOpen career →Belinda Bencic
1 meeting10January 13, 2025View Belinda Bencic × Suzan Lamens →03 BridgeOpen career →Suzan Lamens
1 meeting10August 25, 2025View Suzan Lamens × Valerie Glozman →04 DestinationOpen career →Valerie Glozman
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
- BridgeViktoriya Tomova
- BridgeSuzan Lamens
- DestinationValerie Glozman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAliaksandra Sasnovich
- BridgeSuzan Lamens
- DestinationValerie Glozman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEkaterina Alexandrova
- BridgeSuzan Lamens
- DestinationValerie Glozman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeElise Mertens
- BridgeSuzan Lamens
- DestinationValerie Glozman
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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