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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
E Edgecombe
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
1 meeting10October 30, 1995View Venus Williams × Rosalyn Fairbank →03 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
5 meetings32December 3, 1979 — November 19, 1984View Rosalyn Fairbank × Sue Barker →04 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
1 meeting10July 9, 1973View Sue Barker × Kirsten Anden →05 BridgeOpen career →Kirsten Anden
1 meeting10June 4, 1973View Kirsten Anden × E Edgecombe →06 DestinationOpen career →E Edgecombe
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBelinda Thompson
- BridgeKirsten Anden
- DestinationE Edgecombe
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeKirsten Anden
- DestinationE Edgecombe
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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