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
Fabienne Gmeiner
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
1 meeting10January 18, 1999View Venus Williams × Silvija Talaja →03 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting10May 13, 1993View Silvija Talaja × Helen Asciak →04 BridgeOpen career →Helen Asciak
1 meeting10May 6, 1997View Helen Asciak × Fabienne Gmeiner →05 DestinationOpen career →Fabienne Gmeiner
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
- BridgeOlga Barabanschikova
- BridgeHanna Katri Aalto
- DestinationFabienne Gmeiner
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgePetra Martic
- BridgeClaudine Schaul
- BridgeHanna Katri Aalto
- DestinationFabienne Gmeiner
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgePetra Martic
- BridgeClaudine Schaul
- BridgeHelen Asciak
- DestinationFabienne Gmeiner
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAlison Van Uytvanck
- BridgeClaudine Schaul
- BridgeHanna Katri Aalto
- DestinationFabienne Gmeiner
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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