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
D Dunkin
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
9 meetings63October 31, 1994 — April 30, 2002View Venus Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →03 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →04 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
3 meetings30June 23, 1975 — March 1, 1976View Chris Evert × Elly Appel →05 BridgeOpen career →Elly Appel
1 meeting10June 10, 1974View Elly Appel × Greta Stirton →06 BridgeOpen career →Greta Stirton
1 meeting10July 8, 1974View Greta Stirton × D Dunkin →07 DestinationOpen career →D Dunkin
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeElly Appel
- BridgeGreta Stirton
- DestinationD Dunkin
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeElly Appel
- BridgeGreta Stirton
- DestinationD Dunkin
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChristiane Jolissaint
- BridgeElly Appel
- BridgeGreta Stirton
- DestinationD Dunkin
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- BridgeElly Appel
- BridgeGreta Stirton
- DestinationD Dunkin
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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