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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
Helena Besovic
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
5 meetings50October 30, 1995 — July 12, 2004View Venus Williams × Amy Frazier →03 BridgeOpen career →Amy Frazier
1 meeting10June 16, 2003View Amy Frazier × Amanda Keen →04 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Keen
1 meeting10April 26, 2004View Amanda Keen × Noha Mohsen →05 BridgeOpen career →Noha Mohsen
1 meeting01May 14, 2001View Noha Mohsen × Helena Besovic →06 DestinationOpen career →Helena Besovic
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeAmanda Keen
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- DestinationHelena Besovic
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMiriam Oremans
- BridgeYvonne Doyle
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- DestinationHelena Besovic
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAnne Kremer
- BridgeYvonne Doyle
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- DestinationHelena Besovic
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeEmma Laine
- BridgeTapiwa Marobela
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- DestinationHelena Besovic
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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