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
Gail Bates
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
4 meetings13October 27, 1997 — March 18, 1999View Venus Williams × Jana Novotna →03 BridgeOpen career →Jana Novotna
1 meeting10December 28, 1987View Jana Novotna × Alison Scott →04 BridgeOpen career →Alison Scott
1 meeting10January 25, 1987View Alison Scott × Annette Smith →05 BridgeOpen career →Annette Smith
1 meeting10January 7, 1980View Annette Smith × Gail Bates →06 DestinationOpen career →Gail Bates
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeVeronika Martinek
- BridgeAlison Scott
- BridgeAnnette Smith
- DestinationGail Bates
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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