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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
Katariina Tuohimaa
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 →1 meeting01April 18, 2006View Katariina Tuohimaa × Claudine Schaul →02 BridgeOpen career →Claudine Schaul
1 meeting01February 5, 2014View Claudine Schaul × Petra Martic →03 BridgeOpen career →Petra Martic
2 meetings02February 22, 2021 — October 2, 2023View Petra Martic × 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.
- OriginKatariina Tuohimaa
- BridgeClaudine Schaul
- BridgeAlison Van Uytvanck
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKatariina Tuohimaa
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKatariina Tuohimaa
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKatariina Tuohimaa
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- 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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