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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
Chern Yi Chiew
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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
2 meetings20August 30, 1999 — May 21, 2007View Venus Williams × Tatiana Poutchek →03 BridgeOpen career →Tatiana Poutchek
1 meeting10February 3, 2003View Tatiana Poutchek × Manisha Malhotra →04 BridgeOpen career →Manisha Malhotra
1 meeting01March 8, 1995View Manisha Malhotra × Chern Yi Chiew →05 DestinationOpen career →Chern Yi Chiew
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeWynne Prakusya
- BridgeManisha Malhotra
- DestinationChern Yi Chiew
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAbigail Spears
- BridgeManisha Malhotra
- DestinationChern Yi Chiew
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeYoon Jeong Cho
- BridgeManisha Malhotra
- DestinationChern Yi Chiew
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- BridgeTatiana Poutchek
- BridgeManisha Malhotra
- DestinationChern Yi Chiew
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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