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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
L Cameron
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 meeting01July 10, 1978View L Cameron × Sandy Collins →02 BridgeOpen career →Sandy Collins
1 meeting01November 1, 1993View Sandy Collins × Lisa Raymond →03 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Raymond
6 meetings15August 27, 2001 — June 26, 2006View Lisa Raymond × 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.
- OriginL Cameron
- BridgeSandy Collins
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginL Cameron
- BridgeSandy Collins
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginL Cameron
- BridgeSandy Collins
- BridgeVeronika Martinek
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginL Cameron
- BridgeSandy Collins
- BridgeShaun Stafford
- 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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