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
H Purchase
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 meeting10April 7, 1997View Venus Williams × Jolene Watanabe →03 BridgeOpen career →Jolene Watanabe
1 meeting10August 5, 1991View Jolene Watanabe × Julie Salmon →04 BridgeOpen career →Julie Salmon
1 meeting10April 26, 1982View Julie Salmon × H Purchase →05 DestinationOpen career →H Purchase
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
- BridgeJulie Salmon
- DestinationH Purchase
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeJulie Salmon
- DestinationH Purchase
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeJulie Salmon
- DestinationH Purchase
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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