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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
Tenille Elias
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 meeting01May 17, 2001View Tenille Elias × Carolina Aravena →02 BridgeOpen career →Carolina Aravena
1 meeting01April 28, 2000View Carolina Aravena × Milagros Sequera →03 BridgeOpen career →Milagros Sequera
1 meeting01April 7, 2008View Milagros Sequera × Elena Vesnina →04 BridgeOpen career →Elena Vesnina
1 meeting01June 28, 2021View Elena Vesnina × 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.
- OriginTenille Elias
- BridgeCarolina Aravena
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginTenille Elias
- BridgeCarolina Aravena
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- BridgeMagdalena Rybarikova
- 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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