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

Coco Gauff
reaches
Alina Baraldi

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

1,502 players examined
  1. 2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020
    View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams
  2. 2 meetings20June 22, 1981 — May 3, 1982
    View Rosalyn Fairbank × Duk Hee Lee
  3. 1 meeting01August 22, 1976
    View Duk Hee Lee × Alina Baraldi

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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