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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
Coco Gauff
reaches
Alena Kovackova
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 →2 meetings02May 31, 2021 — November 4, 2024View Coco Gauff × Barbora Krejcikova →02 BridgeOpen career →Barbora Krejcikova
1 meeting10July 20, 2026View Barbora Krejcikova × Lucie Havlickova →03 BridgeOpen career →Lucie Havlickova
1 meeting10July 21, 2025View Lucie Havlickova × Alena Kovackova →04 DestinationOpen career →Alena Kovackova
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeKatie Boulter
- BridgeLucie Havlickova
- DestinationAlena Kovackova
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeXin Yu Wang
- BridgeLucie Havlickova
- DestinationAlena Kovackova
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAlycia Parks
- BridgeLucie Havlickova
- DestinationAlena Kovackova
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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