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
L Sheppard
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
9 meetings63October 31, 1994 — April 30, 2002View Venus Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →03 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings20August 22, 1988 — July 16, 1990View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Jo Durie →04 BridgeOpen career →Jo Durie
1 meeting01October 11, 1976View Jo Durie × Charlotte Leatham →05 BridgeOpen career →Charlotte Leatham
1 meeting10July 13, 1981View Charlotte Leatham × T Gould →06 BridgeOpen career →T Gould
1 meeting10July 13, 1981View T Gould × L Sheppard →07 DestinationOpen career →L Sheppard
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeCharlotte Leatham
- BridgeT Gould
- DestinationL Sheppard
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeFlorencia Labat
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeCharlotte Leatham
- BridgeT Gould
- DestinationL Sheppard
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeCharlotte Leatham
- BridgeT Gould
- DestinationL Sheppard
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeTanya Harford
- BridgeCharlotte Leatham
- BridgeT Gould
- DestinationL Sheppard
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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