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
Lele Forood
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
21 meetings1011March 20, 1997 — May 15, 2006View Venus Williams × Martina Hingis →03 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10October 10, 1994View Martina Hingis × Helena Sukova →04 BridgeOpen career →Helena Sukova
1 meeting10August 30, 1983View Helena Sukova × Lele Forood →05 DestinationOpen career →Lele Forood
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
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeHelena Sukova
- DestinationLele Forood
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJolene Watanabe
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- DestinationLele Forood
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJolene Watanabe
- BridgeHelena Sukova
- DestinationLele Forood
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgePam Shriver
- DestinationLele Forood
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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