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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
Felicia Raschiatore
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meeting01March 9, 1981View Felicia Raschiatore × Billie Jean King →02 BridgeOpen career →Billie Jean King
3 meetings21January 11, 1982 — June 14, 1982View Billie Jean King × Rosalyn Fairbank →03 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
1 meeting01October 30, 1995View Rosalyn Fairbank × Venus Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginFelicia Raschiatore
- BridgePam Teeguarden
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginFelicia Raschiatore
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginFelicia Raschiatore
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginFelicia Raschiatore
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- 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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