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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
Violet Apisah
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 6, 2019View Violet Apisah × Zhaoxuan Yang →02 BridgeOpen career →Zhaoxuan Yang
1 meeting01February 9, 2018View Zhaoxuan Yang × Zarina Diyas →03 BridgeOpen career →Zarina Diyas
1 meeting10July 29, 2019View Zarina Diyas × Coco Gauff →04 DestinationOpen career →Coco Gauff
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginViolet Apisah
- BridgeZhaoxuan Yang
- BridgeTimea Babos
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginViolet Apisah
- BridgeZhaoxuan Yang
- BridgeSofia Kenin
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginViolet Apisah
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- BridgeQiang Wang
- 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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