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

Claudia Van Der Weck
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

1,343 players examined
  1. 2 meetings11January 28, 1991 — April 25, 1994
    View Sandra Wasserman × Karina Habsudova
  2. 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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