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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
Hortencia Birnbaumer
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 →3 meetings21April 29, 2021 — February 19, 2024View Coco Gauff × Karolina Pliskova →02 BridgeOpen career →Karolina Pliskova
1 meeting10August 29, 2016View Karolina Pliskova × Montserrat Gonzalez →03 BridgeOpen career →Montserrat Gonzalez
1 meeting10February 9, 2017View Montserrat Gonzalez × Hortencia Birnbaumer →04 DestinationOpen career →Hortencia Birnbaumer
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
- BridgeAleksandra Krunic
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationHortencia Birnbaumer
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeGarbine Muguruza
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationHortencia Birnbaumer
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeDanka Kovinic
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationHortencia Birnbaumer
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeNadia Podoroska
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationHortencia Birnbaumer
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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