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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
Tania Lea Aizenman Sanchez
reaches
Serena Williams
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
01Open career → 1 meeting01July 22, 2017View Tania Lea Aizenman Sanchez × Kelly Williford →02 BridgeOpen career →Kelly Williford
1 meeting01June 22, 2018View Kelly Williford × Marcela Zacarias →03 BridgeOpen career →Marcela Zacarias
1 meeting01February 23, 2015View Marcela Zacarias × Bethanie Mattek Sands →04 BridgeOpen career →Bethanie Mattek Sands
3 meetings03July 17, 2006 — August 31, 2015View Bethanie Mattek Sands × Serena Williams →05 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
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.
- BridgeKelly Williford
- BridgeMarcela Zacarias
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationSerena Williams
- BridgeKelly Williford
- BridgeMarcela Zacarias
- BridgeJulia Goerges
- DestinationSerena Williams
- BridgeKelly Williford
- BridgeMarcela Zacarias
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- DestinationSerena Williams
- BridgeKelly Williford
- BridgeMarcela Zacarias
- BridgeHeather Watson
- DestinationSerena Williams
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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