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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
Daniela Ruiz
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 meetings20March 19, 2012 — July 30, 2012View Venus Williams × Aleksandra Wozniak →03 BridgeOpen career →Aleksandra Wozniak
1 meeting10February 1, 2012View Aleksandra Wozniak × Patricia Ku Flores →04 BridgeOpen career →Patricia Ku Flores
1 meeting10April 11, 2014View Patricia Ku Flores × Daniela Ruiz →05 DestinationOpen career →Daniela Ruiz
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
- BridgeEugenie Bouchard
- BridgePatricia Ku Flores
- DestinationDaniela Ruiz
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeVeronica Cepede Royg
- BridgeJacklyn Lambert
- DestinationDaniela Ruiz
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- BridgePatricia Ku Flores
- DestinationDaniela Ruiz
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgePatricia Ku Flores
- DestinationDaniela Ruiz
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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