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
Alexandra Mueller
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 2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
5 meetings41June 25, 2001 — May 24, 2010View Venus Williams × Nadia Petrova →03 BridgeOpen career →Nadia Petrova
1 meeting10July 25, 2011View Nadia Petrova × Alexandra Mueller →04 DestinationOpen career →Alexandra Mueller
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.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeHeather Watson
- DestinationAlexandra Mueller
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeNadia Petrova
- DestinationAlexandra Mueller
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeNadia Petrova
- DestinationAlexandra Mueller
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeHeather Watson
- DestinationAlexandra Mueller
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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