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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
Alcuba
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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 meeting01March 1, 1976View Alcuba × Florence Guedy →02 BridgeOpen career →Florence Guedy
2 meetings02December 14, 1974 — December 22, 1974View Florence Guedy × Sharon Walsh Pete →03 BridgeOpen career →Sharon Walsh Pete
6 meetings24June 8, 1980 — August 10, 1987View Sharon Walsh Pete × Rosalyn Fairbank →04 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
1 meeting01October 30, 1995View Rosalyn Fairbank × Venus Williams →05 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →06 DestinationOpen career →Coco Gauff
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- —OriginAlcuba
- BridgeFlorence Guedy
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginAlcuba
- BridgeFlorence Guedy
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginAlcuba
- BridgeFlorence Guedy
- BridgeJenny Walker
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginAlcuba
- BridgeFlorence Guedy
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
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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