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Eras
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
Karla Mancinas
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meetings20May 17, 2021 — May 23, 2022View Coco Gauff × Kaia Kanepi →02 BridgeOpen career →Kaia Kanepi
1 meeting10February 26, 2007View Kaia Kanepi × Conchita Martinez Granados →03Open career → 2 meetings20March 5, 2001View Conchita Martinez Granados × Helga Vieira →04 BridgeOpen career →Helga Vieira
1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Helga Vieira × Karla Mancinas →05 DestinationOpen career →Karla Mancinas
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- BridgeHelga Vieira
- DestinationKarla Mancinas
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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