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
Annette Aksdal
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 1 meeting01October 17, 2022View Coco Gauff × Victoria Azarenka →02 BridgeOpen career →Victoria Azarenka
1 meeting10June 13, 2011View Victoria Azarenka × Elena Baltacha →03 BridgeOpen career →Elena Baltacha
1 meeting10April 11, 2002View Elena Baltacha × Annette Aksdal →04 DestinationOpen career →Annette Aksdal
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
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- BridgeElena Baltacha
- DestinationAnnette Aksdal
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- BridgeElena Baltacha
- DestinationAnnette Aksdal
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAngelique Kerber
- BridgeElena Baltacha
- DestinationAnnette Aksdal
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- BridgeElena Baltacha
- DestinationAnnette Aksdal
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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