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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
Evelyn Fauth
reaches
Coco Gauff
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 →3 meetings03July 28, 1997 — June 10, 2002View Evelyn Fauth × Barbara Schett →02 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Schett
5 meetings14June 22, 1998 — May 28, 2001View Barbara Schett × Venus Williams →03 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginEvelyn Fauth
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginEvelyn Fauth
- BridgeEls Callens
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginEvelyn Fauth
- BridgeDenisa Chladkova
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginEvelyn Fauth
- BridgeAnne Gaelle Sidot
- 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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