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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
Tinesta Rowe
reaches
Serena Williams
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 meeting01May 17, 2001View Tinesta Rowe × Jessica Roland Rosario →02 BridgeOpen career →Jessica Roland Rosario
2 meetings02February 6, 2009 — February 4, 2010View Jessica Roland Rosario × Aleksandra Wozniak →03 BridgeOpen career →Aleksandra Wozniak
2 meetings11July 14, 2008 — May 25, 2009View Aleksandra Wozniak × Serena Williams →04 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginTinesta Rowe
- BridgeYamile Fors Guerra
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginTinesta Rowe
- BridgeYamile Fors Guerra
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- 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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