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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
Poojashree Venkatesha
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10August 16, 2021View Coco Gauff × Su Wei Hsieh →02 BridgeOpen career →Su Wei Hsieh
2 meetings11February 1, 2012 — February 27, 2017View Su Wei Hsieh × Sabina Sharipova →03 BridgeOpen career →Sabina Sharipova
1 meeting10January 31, 2011View Sabina Sharipova × Poojashree Venkatesha →04 DestinationOpen career →Poojashree Venkatesha
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeChin Bee Khoo
- DestinationPoojashree Venkatesha
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeMagdalena Rybarikova
- BridgeSabina Sharipova
- DestinationPoojashree Venkatesha
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeStefanie Voegele
- BridgeSabina Sharipova
- DestinationPoojashree Venkatesha
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- BridgeSabina Sharipova
- DestinationPoojashree Venkatesha
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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