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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
Lynn Philippe
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
3 meetings12February 18, 2008 — March 17, 2014View Venus Williams × Dominika Cibulkova →03 BridgeOpen career →Dominika Cibulkova
1 meeting10July 30, 2007View Dominika Cibulkova × Ksenia Milevskaya →04 BridgeOpen career →Ksenia Milevskaya
1 meeting10April 21, 2007View Ksenia Milevskaya × Lynn Philippe →05 DestinationOpen career →Lynn Philippe
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
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeKsenia Milevskaya
- DestinationLynn Philippe
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeKsenia Milevskaya
- DestinationLynn Philippe
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeKsenia Milevskaya
- DestinationLynn Philippe
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeKsenia Milevskaya
- DestinationLynn Philippe
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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