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Bridges Across
Eras

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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Anna Nemeth
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

1,470 players examined
  1. 2 meetings20January 9, 1989 — August 7, 1989
    View Hana Mandlikova × Amy Frazier
  2. 5 meetings05October 30, 1995 — July 12, 2004
    View Amy Frazier × Venus Williams
  3. 2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020
    View Venus Williams × 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.

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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