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
Coco Gauff
reaches
Alena Panfilova
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
01 4 meetings40March 21, 2022 — October 6, 2025View Coco Gauff × Shuai Zhang →02 BridgeOpen career →Shuai Zhang
1 meeting10March 3, 2020View Shuai Zhang × Rutuja Bhosale →03 BridgeOpen career →Rutuja Bhosale
1 meeting10February 3, 2012View Rutuja Bhosale × Tamitha Nguyen →04 BridgeOpen career →Tamitha Nguyen
1 meeting10January 31, 2011View Tamitha Nguyen × Alena Panfilova →05 DestinationOpen career →Alena Panfilova
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeZarina Diyas
- BridgeHo Ching Wu
- BridgeSarah Al Balushi
- DestinationAlena Panfilova
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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