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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
Mrs Ahmed Mansour
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
9 meetings63October 31, 1994 — April 30, 2002View Venus Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →03 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →04 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
13 meetings130August 28, 1972 — April 30, 1979View Chris Evert × Olga Morozova →05 BridgeOpen career →Olga Morozova
2 meetings20March 9, 1970 — March 16, 1970View Olga Morozova × Marcella Barochova →06 BridgeOpen career →Marcella Barochova
1 meeting10March 9, 1970View Marcella Barochova × Mrs Ahmed Mansour →07 DestinationOpen career →Mrs Ahmed Mansour
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeMarcella Barochova
- DestinationMrs Ahmed Mansour
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeMarcella Barochova
- DestinationMrs Ahmed Mansour
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeMarcella Barochova
- DestinationMrs Ahmed Mansour
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeMarcella Barochova
- DestinationMrs Ahmed Mansour
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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