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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 Jose Lopez Herrera
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 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
4 meetings40April 4, 2005 — March 24, 2008View Venus Williams × Marta Domachowska →03 BridgeOpen career →Marta Domachowska
1 meeting10February 21, 2005View Marta Domachowska × Maria Jose Lopez Herrera →04 DestinationOpen career →Maria Jose Lopez Herrera
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
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeMarta Domachowska
- DestinationMaria Jose Lopez Herrera
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgePetra Kvitova
- BridgeMarta Domachowska
- DestinationMaria Jose Lopez Herrera
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAnastasija Sevastova
- BridgeMarta Domachowska
- DestinationMaria Jose Lopez Herrera
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeShelby Rogers
- BridgeMarta Domachowska
- DestinationMaria Jose Lopez Herrera
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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