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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
Sarah Mahboob Khan
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 meeting01February 7, 2018View Sarah Mahboob Khan × Aldila Sutjiadi →02 BridgeOpen career →Aldila Sutjiadi
2 meetings02March 4, 2020 — April 15, 2022View Aldila Sutjiadi × Qiang Wang →03 BridgeOpen career →Qiang Wang
4 meetings13May 17, 2021 — March 21, 2022View Qiang Wang × 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.
- OriginSarah Mahboob Khan
- BridgeAslina Chua
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginSarah Mahboob Khan
- BridgePaige Mary Hourigan
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginSarah Mahboob Khan
- BridgePaige Mary Hourigan
- BridgeQiang Wang
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginSarah Mahboob Khan
- BridgePaige Mary Hourigan
- BridgeMoyuka Uchijima
- 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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