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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
Kaiser
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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 meeting01August 17, 1970View Kaiser × Kunstfeld →02— BridgeOpen career →Kunstfeld
1 meeting01July 31, 1969View Kunstfeld × Irena Skulj →03 BridgeOpen career →Irena Skulj
1 meeting01March 16, 1970View Irena Skulj × Veronica Burton →04 BridgeOpen career →Veronica Burton
1 meeting01May 21, 1979View Veronica Burton × Rosalyn Fairbank →05 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
1 meeting01October 30, 1995View Rosalyn Fairbank × Venus Williams →06 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- —OriginKaiser
- —BridgeKunstfeld
- BridgeEdda Buding
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginKaiser
- —BridgeKunstfeld
- BridgeEdda Buding
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginKaiser
- —BridgeKunstfeld
- BridgeEdda Buding
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginKaiser
- —BridgeKunstfeld
- BridgeEdda Buding
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- 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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