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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
Jin Hee Kim
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 →2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings20June 22, 1998 — June 24, 2002View Venus Williams × Virginia Ruano Pascual →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Ruano Pascual
1 meeting10September 30, 2002View Virginia Ruano Pascual × Jin Hee Kim →04 DestinationOpen career →Jin Hee Kim
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
- BridgeSamantha Stosur
- DestinationJin Hee Kim
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMaria Sharapova
- DestinationJin Hee Kim
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeShikha Uberoi
- DestinationJin Hee Kim
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMarina Erakovic
- DestinationJin Hee Kim
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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