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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
Lara Alsamman
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 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
1 meeting10February 23, 1998View Venus Williams × Nana Smith →03 BridgeOpen career →Nana Smith
1 meeting10April 28, 2000View Nana Smith × Alissa Velts →04 BridgeOpen career →Alissa Velts
1 meeting10March 7, 2002View Alissa Velts × Lara Alsamman →05 DestinationOpen career →Lara Alsamman
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeWynne Prakusya
- BridgeDavilyn Godinet
- DestinationLara Alsamman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeNa Li
- BridgeDavilyn Godinet
- DestinationLara Alsamman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeGurianna Korinihona
- DestinationLara Alsamman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeGurianna Korinihona
- DestinationLara Alsamman
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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