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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
J Hrebik
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
21 meetings1011March 20, 1997 — May 15, 2006View Venus Williams × Martina Hingis →03 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10April 25, 1996View Martina Hingis × Andrea Temesvari →04 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Temesvari
1 meeting10October 24, 1983View Andrea Temesvari × Heidi Eisterlehner →05 BridgeOpen career →Heidi Eisterlehner
1 meeting10July 24, 1980View Heidi Eisterlehner × Jeanne Gobat →06 BridgeOpen career →Jeanne Gobat
1 meeting10August 28, 1980View Jeanne Gobat × J Hrebik →07— DestinationOpen career →J Hrebik
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJolene Watanabe
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeHeidi Eisterlehner
- BridgeJeanne Gobat
- —DestinationJ Hrebik
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJolene Watanabe
- BridgeAndrea Temesvari
- BridgeHeidi Eisterlehner
- BridgeJeanne Gobat
- —DestinationJ Hrebik
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeHeidi Eisterlehner
- BridgeJeanne Gobat
- —DestinationJ Hrebik
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeHeidi Eisterlehner
- BridgeJeanne Gobat
- —DestinationJ Hrebik
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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