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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
Silvia Hegedis
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
2 meetings20January 13, 2003 — June 20, 2005View Venus Williams × Nicole Pratt →03 BridgeOpen career →Nicole Pratt
1 meeting10April 21, 2006View Nicole Pratt × Kyung Mi Chang →04 BridgeOpen career →Kyung Mi Chang
1 meeting10January 28, 2002View Kyung Mi Chang × Silvia Hegedis →05 DestinationOpen career →Silvia Hegedis
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
- BridgeEmilie Loit
- BridgeMelanie Marois
- DestinationSilvia Hegedis
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKimberly Po Messerli
- BridgeMelanie Marois
- DestinationSilvia Hegedis
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeIva Majoli
- BridgeMelanie Marois
- DestinationSilvia Hegedis
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAnsley Cargill
- BridgeKyung Mi Chang
- DestinationSilvia Hegedis
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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