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
Kaori Aoyama
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
7 meetings70May 25, 1998 — June 23, 2008View Venus Williams × Tamarine Tanasugarn →03 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10March 3, 1996View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Madoka Kuki →04 BridgeOpen career →Madoka Kuki
1 meeting10September 7, 1998View Madoka Kuki × Kaori Aoyama →05 DestinationOpen career →Kaori Aoyama
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
- BridgeIrina Spirlea
- BridgeSurina De Beer
- DestinationKaori Aoyama
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMadoka Kuki
- DestinationKaori Aoyama
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- BridgeSurina De Beer
- DestinationKaori Aoyama
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMadoka Kuki
- DestinationKaori Aoyama
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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