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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
Marina Melnikova
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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 meetings20February 22, 2021 — October 2, 2023View Coco Gauff × Petra Martic →02 BridgeOpen career →Petra Martic
1 meeting01April 20, 2015View Petra Martic × Marina Melnikova →03 DestinationOpen career →Marina Melnikova
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeLaura Siegemund
- DestinationMarina Melnikova
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeYulia Putintseva
- DestinationMarina Melnikova
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAlison Van Uytvanck
- DestinationMarina Melnikova
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVeronika Kudermetova
- DestinationMarina Melnikova
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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