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Eras

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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Anne Marie Cassaigne
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

3,543 players examined
  1. 2 meetings11September 14, 1970 — October 5, 1970
    View Anne Marie Cassaigne × Rosie Reyes →
  2. 1 meeting10October 7, 1974
    View Rosie Reyes × Sue Barker →
  3. 1 meeting01June 25, 1984
    View Sue Barker × Steffi Graf →
  4. 5 meetings32August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999
    View Steffi Graf × Venus Williams →
  5. 2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020
    View Venus Williams × 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.

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.

Reverse the route →