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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
Mikaela Molina Bugarija
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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
2 meetings20April 1, 2013 — August 31, 2015View Venus Williams × Monica Puig →03 BridgeOpen career →Monica Puig
1 meeting10February 4, 2016View Monica Puig × Iesha Shepherd →04 BridgeOpen career →Iesha Shepherd
1 meeting01February 5, 2016View Iesha Shepherd × Florencia Rossi →05 BridgeOpen career →Florencia Rossi
1 meeting10July 21, 2017View Florencia Rossi × Mikaela Molina Bugarija →06 DestinationOpen career →Mikaela Molina Bugarija
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeAlejandra Obando
- BridgeFlorencia Rossi
- DestinationMikaela Molina Bugarija
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeIesha Shepherd
- BridgeFlorencia Rossi
- DestinationMikaela Molina Bugarija
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeAlejandra Obando
- BridgeFlorencia Rossi
- DestinationMikaela Molina Bugarija
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeAndrea Gamiz
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeFlorencia Rossi
- DestinationMikaela Molina Bugarija
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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