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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
Helena Besovic
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 meeting10May 14, 2001View Helena Besovic × Noha Mohsen →02 BridgeOpen career →Noha Mohsen
1 meeting01April 26, 2004View Noha Mohsen × Amanda Keen →03 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Keen
1 meeting01June 16, 2003View Amanda Keen × Amy Frazier →04 BridgeOpen career →Amy Frazier
5 meetings05October 30, 1995 — July 12, 2004View Amy Frazier × 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.
- OriginHelena Besovic
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- BridgeAmanda Keen
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginHelena Besovic
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- BridgeAmanda Keen
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginHelena Besovic
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- BridgeAmanda Keen
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginHelena Besovic
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- BridgeAmanda Keen
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- 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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