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
Cigdem Duru
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 1 meeting01April 27, 2004View Cigdem Duru × Elena Baltacha →02 BridgeOpen career →Elena Baltacha
1 meeting01June 13, 2011View Elena Baltacha × Victoria Azarenka →03 BridgeOpen career →Victoria Azarenka
1 meeting10October 17, 2022View Victoria Azarenka × Coco Gauff →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCigdem Duru
- BridgeElena Baltacha
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginCigdem Duru
- BridgeElena Baltacha
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginCigdem Duru
- BridgeElena Baltacha
- BridgeAngelique Kerber
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginCigdem Duru
- BridgeElena Baltacha
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- 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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