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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
Himeno Sakatsume
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →7 meetings43February 22, 2021 — November 1, 2025View Coco Gauff × Jasmine Paolini →02 BridgeOpen career →Jasmine Paolini
2 meetings20August 22, 2022 — April 10, 2026View Jasmine Paolini × Himeno Sakatsume →03 DestinationOpen career →Himeno Sakatsume
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSofia Kenin
- DestinationHimeno Sakatsume
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeLucia Bronzetti
- DestinationHimeno Sakatsume
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAryna Sabalenka
- DestinationHimeno Sakatsume
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeCaty McNally
- DestinationHimeno Sakatsume
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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