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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
Michele Wagner
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
5 meetings41June 22, 1998 — May 28, 2001View Venus Williams × Barbara Schett →03 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Schett
1 meeting10April 20, 1994View Barbara Schett × Joana Pedroso →04 BridgeOpen career →Joana Pedroso
2 meetings11May 9, 1995 — May 13, 1995View Joana Pedroso × Michele Wagner →05 DestinationOpen career →Michele Wagner
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
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgePaula Iversen
- DestinationMichele Wagner
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeJoana Pedroso
- DestinationMichele Wagner
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgePaula Iversen
- DestinationMichele Wagner
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgePaula Iversen
- DestinationMichele Wagner
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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