Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
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.
Shortest path found
Anne Duffy
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01May 6, 1972View Anne Duffy × Vicki Jensen →02 BridgeOpen career →Vicki Jensen
1 meeting01May 6, 1972View Vicki Jensen × Janet Newberry →03 BridgeOpen career →Janet Newberry
5 meetings05September 13, 1974 — June 26, 1978View Janet Newberry × Evonne Goolagong →04 BridgeOpen career →Evonne Goolagong
1 meeting10June 4, 1979View Evonne Goolagong × Rosalyn Fairbank →05 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
1 meeting01October 30, 1995View Rosalyn Fairbank × Venus Williams →06 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAnne Duffy
- BridgeVicki Jensen
- BridgeJanet Newberry
- BridgeBillie Jean King
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginAnne Duffy
- BridgeVicki Jensen
- BridgeJanet Newberry
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginAnne Duffy
- BridgeVicki Jensen
- BridgeJanet Newberry
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginAnne Duffy
- BridgeVicki Jensen
- BridgeJanet Newberry
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeVenus Williams
- 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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