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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 Skutina
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 28, 1980View L Skutina × G Hinterwirth →02 BridgeOpen career →G Hinterwirth
1 meeting01August 28, 1980View G Hinterwirth × Yvona Brzakova →03 BridgeOpen career →Yvona Brzakova
1 meeting01August 3, 1981View Yvona Brzakova × Sue Barker →04 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
5 meetings23December 3, 1979 — November 19, 1984View Sue Barker × 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.
- —OriginL Skutina
- BridgeG Hinterwirth
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginL Skutina
- BridgeG Hinterwirth
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- BridgeAnn Kiyomura Hayashi
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginL Skutina
- BridgeG Hinterwirth
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- —OriginL Skutina
- BridgeG Hinterwirth
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- 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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