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
Lee Connelly
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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 25, 1997 — February 18, 2002View Venus Williams × Sandrine Testud →03 BridgeOpen career →Sandrine Testud
1 meeting10August 5, 1991View Sandrine Testud × Jo Anne Faull →04 BridgeOpen career →Jo Anne Faull
1 meeting10January 25, 1971View Jo Anne Faull × Maria Teresa Nasuelli →05 BridgeOpen career →Maria Teresa Nasuelli
1 meeting10March 10, 1970View Maria Teresa Nasuelli × Lee Connelly →06— DestinationOpen career →Lee Connelly
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMaria Teresa Nasuelli
- —DestinationLee Connelly
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeLaurie Fleming
- —DestinationLee Connelly
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeKim Steinmetz
- BridgeMaria Teresa Nasuelli
- —DestinationLee Connelly
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgePilar Vasquez
- BridgeMaria Teresa Nasuelli
- —DestinationLee Connelly
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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