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
Lubomira Bacheva
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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 meetings72May 7, 2001 — August 27, 2007View Venus Williams × Justine Henin →03 BridgeOpen career →Justine Henin
1 meeting10May 10, 1999View Justine Henin × Lubomira Bacheva →04 DestinationOpen career →Lubomira Bacheva
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJolene Watanabe
- DestinationLubomira Bacheva
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- DestinationLubomira Bacheva
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- DestinationLubomira Bacheva
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationLubomira Bacheva
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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