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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
Melissa Mendieta
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 →2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
1 meeting10June 22, 1998View Venus Williams × Jana Nejedly →03 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
2 meetings20April 15, 1998 — April 27, 2002View Jana Nejedly × Daniela Olivera →04 BridgeOpen career →Daniela Olivera
1 meeting10February 25, 1999View Daniela Olivera × Melissa Mendieta →05 DestinationOpen career →Melissa Mendieta
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- DestinationMelissa Mendieta
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeDaniela Olivera
- DestinationMelissa Mendieta
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeLarikah Russell
- DestinationMelissa Mendieta
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKristina Brandi
- BridgeYamile Fors Guerra
- DestinationMelissa Mendieta
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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