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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
Antonella Oneto
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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 meeting01August 4, 1980View Antonella Oneto × Silvia Pavan →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvia Pavan
1 meeting01August 4, 1980View Silvia Pavan × Uschi Ulrich →03 BridgeOpen career →Uschi Ulrich
1 meeting01May 14, 1979View Uschi Ulrich × Mima Jausovec →04 BridgeOpen career →Mima Jausovec
1 meeting01October 20, 1987View Mima Jausovec × Nathalie Tauziat →05 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
7 meetings25May 26, 1997 — July 30, 2001View Nathalie Tauziat × Venus Williams →06 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAntonella Oneto
- BridgeSilvia Pavan
- BridgeUschi Ulrich
- BridgeMima Jausovec
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginAntonella Oneto
- BridgeSilvia Pavan
- BridgeElizabetta Lazzeri
- BridgeSabina Simmonds
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginAntonella Oneto
- BridgeSilvia Pavan
- BridgeElizabetta Lazzeri
- BridgeKim Steinmetz
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginAntonella Oneto
- BridgeSilvia Pavan
- BridgeElizabetta Lazzeri
- BridgeKim Steinmetz
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- 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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