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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
Yvonne Grimwade
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
9 meetings63October 31, 1994 — April 30, 2002View Venus Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →03 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting10July 26, 1987View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Joni Van Ryck De Groot →04 BridgeOpen career →Joni Van Ryck De Groot
1 meeting10June 1, 1982View Joni Van Ryck De Groot × Ann Jones →05 BridgeOpen career →Ann Jones
1 meeting10April 12, 1974View Ann Jones × Anne Lloyd →06 BridgeOpen career →Anne Lloyd
1 meeting10July 14, 1969View Anne Lloyd × Yvonne Grimwade →07 DestinationOpen career →Yvonne Grimwade
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeEvonne Goolagong
- BridgeAnn Jones
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- DestinationYvonne Grimwade
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeEvonne Goolagong
- BridgeGail Hansen
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- DestinationYvonne Grimwade
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBillie Jean King
- BridgeAnn Jones
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- DestinationYvonne Grimwade
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBillie Jean King
- BridgeWendy Tomlinson
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- DestinationYvonne Grimwade
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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