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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
Susan Bandecchi
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →8 meetings62February 22, 2021 — June 29, 2026View Coco Gauff × Belinda Bencic →02 BridgeOpen career →Belinda Bencic
1 meeting10July 11, 2022View Belinda Bencic × Susan Bandecchi →03 DestinationOpen career →Susan Bandecchi
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeOceane Dodin
- DestinationSusan Bandecchi
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeCristina Bucsa
- DestinationSusan Bandecchi
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeDaria Kasatkina
- DestinationSusan Bandecchi
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeViktoria Hruncakova
- DestinationSusan Bandecchi
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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