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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
Nermien Abaza
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 meeting10May 16, 2001View Nermien Abaza × Mamotebang Molise →02 BridgeOpen career →Mamotebang Molise
1 meeting01May 15, 2001View Mamotebang Molise × Mervana Jugic Salkic →03 BridgeOpen career →Mervana Jugic Salkic
1 meeting01February 7, 2009View Mervana Jugic Salkic × Tsvetana Pironkova →04 BridgeOpen career →Tsvetana Pironkova
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Tsvetana Pironkova × Coco Gauff →05 DestinationOpen career →Coco Gauff
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginNermien Abaza
- BridgeMamotebang Molise
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginNermien Abaza
- BridgeMamotebang Molise
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- 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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