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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
G Von Domieux
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 30, 1983View G Von Domieux × Nicola Lusty →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicola Lusty
1 meeting01May 17, 1982View Nicola Lusty × Amanda Brown →03 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Brown
1 meeting01August 12, 1985View Amanda Brown × Steffi Graf →04 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
5 meetings32August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × 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.
- —OriginG Von Domieux
- BridgeNicola Lusty
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginG Von Domieux
- BridgeNicola Lusty
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginG Von Domieux
- BridgeNicola Lusty
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginG Von Domieux
- BridgeNicola Lusty
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- BridgeBrenda Schultz Mccarthy
- 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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