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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
M Gardini
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
1 meeting10May 7, 2001View Venus Williams × Karina Habsudova →03 BridgeOpen career →Karina Habsudova
1 meeting10August 19, 1996View Karina Habsudova × Pam Shriver →04 BridgeOpen career →Pam Shriver
1 meeting10January 23, 1978View Pam Shriver × Linda Mottram →05 BridgeOpen career →Linda Mottram
1 meeting10May 8, 1978View Linda Mottram × N Tramacchi →06 BridgeOpen career →N Tramacchi
1 meeting10May 8, 1978View N Tramacchi × M Gardini →07 DestinationOpen career →M Gardini
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
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeCatherine Tanvier
- BridgeJoy Tacon
- BridgeN Tramacchi
- DestinationM Gardini
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeBelinda Cordwell
- BridgeJoy Tacon
- BridgeN Tramacchi
- DestinationM Gardini
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeBelinda Cordwell
- BridgeRos Lewis
- BridgeN Tramacchi
- DestinationM Gardini
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeLinda Mottram
- BridgeN Tramacchi
- DestinationM Gardini
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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