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.

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

Chenting Zhu
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

165 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01October 27, 2025
    View Chenting Zhu × Lilli Tagger
  2. 2 meetings11July 13, 2026 — July 20, 2026
    View Lilli Tagger × Sara Bejlek
  3. 1 meeting01August 13, 2026
    View Sara Bejlek × Coco Gauff

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 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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