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
G Ruiz
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
2 meetings20January 19, 1998 — May 25, 1998View Venus Williams × Alexia Dechaume Balleret →03 BridgeOpen career →Alexia Dechaume Balleret
1 meeting10October 5, 1987View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × Virginia Ruzici →04 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Ruzici
1 meeting10May 5, 1973View Virginia Ruzici × Brenda Kirk →05 BridgeOpen career →Brenda Kirk
1 meeting10July 12, 1971View Brenda Kirk × G Ruiz →06 DestinationOpen career →G Ruiz
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
- BridgeLinda Wild
- BridgeFiorella Bonicelli
- BridgeBrenda Kirk
- DestinationG Ruiz
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- BridgeBrenda Kirk
- DestinationG Ruiz
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeEvonne Goolagong
- BridgeBrenda Kirk
- DestinationG Ruiz
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBillie Jean King
- BridgeBrenda Kirk
- DestinationG Ruiz
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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