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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
Ilze Hattingh
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 →5 meetings50May 29, 2023 — May 5, 2026View Coco Gauff × Mirra Andreeva →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirra Andreeva
2 meetings11July 24, 2023 — April 21, 2026View Mirra Andreeva × Anna Bondar →03 BridgeOpen career →Anna Bondar
1 meeting10February 6, 2016View Anna Bondar × Ilze Hattingh →04 DestinationOpen career →Ilze Hattingh
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
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeDalila Jakupovic
- DestinationIlze Hattingh
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeKatie Swan
- DestinationIlze Hattingh
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- BridgePemra Ozgen
- DestinationIlze Hattingh
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAngelique Kerber
- BridgeDalila Jakupovic
- DestinationIlze Hattingh
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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