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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
Zuleykha Safarova
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 meeting01July 27, 2015View Zuleykha Safarova × Oleksandra Korashvili →02 BridgeOpen career →Oleksandra Korashvili
1 meeting01July 27, 2015View Oleksandra Korashvili × Evgeniya Rodina →03 BridgeOpen career →Evgeniya Rodina
1 meeting01August 25, 2008View Evgeniya Rodina × Su Wei Hsieh →04 BridgeOpen career →Su Wei Hsieh
1 meeting01August 16, 2021View Su Wei Hsieh × Coco Gauff →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginZuleykha Safarova
- BridgeOleksandra Korashvili
- BridgeEvgeniya Rodina
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginZuleykha Safarova
- BridgeOleksandra Korashvili
- BridgeEvgeniya Rodina
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginZuleykha Safarova
- BridgeOleksandra Korashvili
- BridgeEvgeniya Rodina
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginZuleykha Safarova
- BridgeOleksandra Korashvili
- BridgeEvgeniya Rodina
- BridgeMadison Brengle
- 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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