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
K Allen
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
6 meetings51August 27, 2001 — June 26, 2006View Venus Williams × Lisa Raymond →03 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Raymond
1 meeting10November 1, 1993View Lisa Raymond × Sandy Collins →04 BridgeOpen career →Sandy Collins
1 meeting10July 10, 1978View Sandy Collins × K Allen →05 DestinationOpen career →K Allen
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
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeSandy Collins
- DestinationK Allen
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeSandy Collins
- DestinationK Allen
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeVeronika Martinek
- BridgeSandy Collins
- DestinationK Allen
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeShaun Stafford
- BridgeSandy Collins
- DestinationK Allen
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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