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
Kate Makarova
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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
3 meetings21June 21, 2010 — January 13, 2014View Venus Williams × Kate Makarova →03 DestinationOpen career →Kate Makarova
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationKate Makarova
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- DestinationKate Makarova
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- DestinationKate Makarova
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationKate Makarova
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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