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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
Madelaine Madelaire
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 meetings11June 28, 2021 — May 9, 2022View Coco Gauff × Angelique Kerber →02 BridgeOpen career →Angelique Kerber
1 meeting10February 15, 2010View Angelique Kerber × Sharon Fichman →03 BridgeOpen career →Sharon Fichman
1 meeting10April 22, 2005View Sharon Fichman × Madelaine Madelaire →04 DestinationOpen career →Madelaine Madelaire
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
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- BridgeSharon Fichman
- DestinationMadelaine Madelaire
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeMagdalena Rybarikova
- BridgeSharon Fichman
- DestinationMadelaine Madelaire
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeCaroline Garcia
- BridgeSharon Fichman
- DestinationMadelaine Madelaire
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeKiki Bertens
- BridgeSharon Fichman
- DestinationMadelaine Madelaire
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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