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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
Giulia Safina Popa
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 →1 meeting10May 5, 2026View Coco Gauff × Iva Jovic →02 BridgeOpen career →Iva Jovic
1 meeting10September 8, 2025View Iva Jovic × Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva →03Open career → 1 meeting10July 14, 2025View Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva × Giulia Safina Popa →04 DestinationOpen career →Giulia Safina Popa
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- DestinationGiulia Safina Popa
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeRebecca Marino
- DestinationGiulia Safina Popa
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeYulia Putintseva
- DestinationGiulia Safina Popa
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeKiki Bertens
- DestinationGiulia Safina Popa
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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