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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
Nina Munch Soegaard
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
3 meetings30August 31, 1998 — July 29, 2002View Venus Williams × Anne Kremer →03 BridgeOpen career →Anne Kremer
1 meeting10April 24, 2002View Anne Kremer × Ipek Senoglu →04 BridgeOpen career →Ipek Senoglu
1 meeting01April 29, 2006View Ipek Senoglu × Nina Munch Soegaard →05 DestinationOpen career →Nina Munch Soegaard
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
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- DestinationNina Munch Soegaard
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeEmma Laine
- BridgeOlfa Dhaoui
- DestinationNina Munch Soegaard
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeVania King
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- DestinationNina Munch Soegaard
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeOlga Govortsova
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- DestinationNina Munch Soegaard
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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