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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
Edna Vasquez
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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 meeting01May 13, 2000View Edna Vasquez × Daniela Alvarez →02 BridgeOpen career →Daniela Alvarez
1 meeting01February 27, 1999View Daniela Alvarez × Cecilia Guillenea →03 BridgeOpen career →Cecilia Guillenea
1 meeting01April 27, 2000View Cecilia Guillenea × Sonya Jeyaseelan →04 BridgeOpen career →Sonya Jeyaseelan
1 meeting10April 5, 1999View Sonya Jeyaseelan × Venus Williams →05 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →06 DestinationOpen career →Coco Gauff
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginEdna Vasquez
- BridgeDaniela Alvarez
- BridgeCecilia Guillenea
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginEdna Vasquez
- BridgeDaniela Alvarez
- BridgeCecilia Guillenea
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginEdna Vasquez
- BridgeDaniela Alvarez
- BridgeCecilia Guillenea
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- BridgeMagdalena Rybarikova
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginEdna Vasquez
- BridgeDaniela Alvarez
- BridgeValentina Castro
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
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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