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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
Sobhini De Silva
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 meetings02April 22, 2003 — January 30, 2008View Su Wei Hsieh × Iroda Tulyaganova →03 BridgeOpen career →Iroda Tulyaganova
1 meeting10March 12, 1997View Iroda Tulyaganova × Sobhini De Silva →04 DestinationOpen career →Sobhini De Silva
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeChin Bee Khoo
- DestinationSobhini De Silva
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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