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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
Halla Alajeely
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 →1 meeting10August 16, 2021View Coco Gauff × Su Wei Hsieh →02 BridgeOpen career →Su Wei Hsieh
1 meeting01May 22, 2023View Su Wei Hsieh × Erin Routliffe →03 BridgeOpen career →Erin Routliffe
1 meeting10July 21, 2017View Erin Routliffe × Nethmi Himashi Waduge →04 BridgeOpen career →Nethmi Himashi Waduge
1 meeting10February 7, 2014View Nethmi Himashi Waduge × Halla Alajeely →05 DestinationOpen career →Halla Alajeely
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
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- BridgePaige Mary Hourigan
- BridgeJahana Bayramova
- DestinationHalla Alajeely
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeZarina Diyas
- BridgeHo Ching Wu
- BridgeJahana Bayramova
- DestinationHalla Alajeely
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeYulia Putintseva
- BridgeJawairiah Noordin
- BridgeNethmi Himashi Waduge
- DestinationHalla Alajeely
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeQiang Wang
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- BridgeNethmi Himashi Waduge
- DestinationHalla Alajeely
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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