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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
Maria Elena Del Valle
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 →1 meeting10July 1, 2019View Coco Gauff × Magdalena Rybarikova →02 BridgeOpen career →Magdalena Rybarikova
1 meeting10February 27, 2012View Magdalena Rybarikova × Ximena Hermoso →03 BridgeOpen career →Ximena Hermoso
1 meeting10April 24, 2009View Ximena Hermoso × Anabelle Espinosa Rodriguez →04Open career → 1 meeting01April 30, 1998View Anabelle Espinosa Rodriguez × Maria Elena Del Valle →05 DestinationOpen career →Maria Elena Del Valle
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
- BridgeTimea Babos
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- DestinationMaria Elena Del Valle
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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