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
Ann Flint
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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
21 meetings1011March 20, 1997 — May 15, 2006View Venus Williams × Martina Hingis →03 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10April 25, 1996View Martina Hingis × Andrea Temesvari →04 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Temesvari
1 meeting01June 14, 1982View Andrea Temesvari × Beth Norton →05 BridgeOpen career →Beth Norton
1 meeting10November 10, 1980View Beth Norton × Ann Flint →06 DestinationOpen career →Ann Flint
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJolene Watanabe
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeBeth Norton
- DestinationAnn Flint
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJolene Watanabe
- BridgeAndrea Temesvari
- BridgeBeth Norton
- DestinationAnn Flint
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeBeth Norton
- DestinationAnn Flint
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeBeth Norton
- DestinationAnn Flint
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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