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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
Alissa Velts
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 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
1 meeting10February 23, 1998View Venus Williams × Nana Smith →03 BridgeOpen career →Nana Smith
1 meeting10April 28, 2000View Nana Smith × Alissa Velts →04 DestinationOpen career →Alissa Velts
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.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeChin Bee Khoo
- DestinationAlissa Velts
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- BridgeTing Li
- DestinationAlissa Velts
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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