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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
Ashley Kei Yim
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 →2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
3 meetings30January 18, 2010 — February 23, 2015View Venus Williams × Casey Dellacqua →03 BridgeOpen career →Casey Dellacqua
1 meeting10September 11, 2006View Casey Dellacqua × Lavinia Tananta →04 BridgeOpen career →Lavinia Tananta
1 meeting10July 20, 2017View Lavinia Tananta × Alina Lazareva →05 BridgeOpen career →Alina Lazareva
1 meeting01April 15, 2016View Alina Lazareva × Ashley Kei Yim →06 DestinationOpen career →Ashley Kei Yim
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.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeYaroslava Shvedova
- BridgeJessy Rompies
- BridgeAlina Lazareva
- DestinationAshley Kei Yim
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMarina Erakovic
- BridgeSara Mansoor
- BridgeAlina Lazareva
- DestinationAshley Kei Yim
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeCasey Dellacqua
- BridgeLavinia Tananta
- BridgeAlina Lazareva
- DestinationAshley Kei Yim
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeMarina Erakovic
- BridgeSara Mansoor
- BridgeAlina Lazareva
- DestinationAshley Kei Yim
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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