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
Elvyn Barrable
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 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
1 meeting10April 13, 1987View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Yvonne Vermaak →04 BridgeOpen career →Yvonne Vermaak
1 meeting10November 25, 1981View Yvonne Vermaak × Elvyn Barrable →05 DestinationOpen career →Elvyn Barrable
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeYvonne Vermaak
- DestinationElvyn Barrable
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeYvonne Vermaak
- DestinationElvyn Barrable
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeYvonne Vermaak
- DestinationElvyn Barrable
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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