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
Doreen Smith
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
1 meeting10August 12, 1996View Venus Williams × Linda Wild →03 BridgeOpen career →Linda Wild
1 meeting01August 1, 1972View Linda Wild × Fiorella Bonicelli →04 BridgeOpen career →Fiorella Bonicelli
2 meetings11July 14, 1969 — August 20, 1973View Fiorella Bonicelli × Lesley Turner →05 BridgeOpen career →Lesley Turner
1 meeting10July 15, 1968View Lesley Turner × Doreen Smith →06 DestinationOpen career →Doreen Smith
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
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeMima Jausovec
- BridgeLesley Turner
- DestinationDoreen Smith
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeEvonne Goolagong
- BridgeLesley Turner
- DestinationDoreen Smith
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBillie Jean King
- BridgeLesley Turner
- DestinationDoreen Smith
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeLesley Turner
- DestinationDoreen Smith
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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