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
Donna Fields Gibbs
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
01 OriginOpen career →2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings20April 8, 2002 — May 3, 2004View Venus Williams × Paola Suarez →03 BridgeOpen career →Paola Suarez
1 meeting10April 14, 1999View Paola Suarez × Karin Palme →04 BridgeOpen career →Karin Palme
1 meeting10April 29, 1998View Karin Palme × Donna Fields Gibbs →05 DestinationOpen career →Donna Fields Gibbs
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeFabiola Zuluaga
- BridgeKarin Palme
- DestinationDonna Fields Gibbs
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMelinda Czink
- BridgeKarin Palme
- DestinationDonna Fields Gibbs
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeMelinda Czink
- BridgeKarin Palme
- DestinationDonna Fields Gibbs
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeMelinda Czink
- BridgeKarin Palme
- DestinationDonna Fields Gibbs
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.
Reverse the route →