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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
Lucia Batta
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10April 5, 2021View Coco Gauff × Tsvetana Pironkova →02 BridgeOpen career →Tsvetana Pironkova
2 meetings11April 27, 2009 — April 25, 2011View Tsvetana Pironkova × Alberta Brianti →03 BridgeOpen career →Alberta Brianti
1 meeting10April 23, 2007View Alberta Brianti × Lucia Batta →04 DestinationOpen career →Lucia Batta
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
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- BridgeAlberta Brianti
- DestinationLucia Batta
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeAlberta Brianti
- DestinationLucia Batta
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- BridgeKaren Barbat
- DestinationLucia Batta
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeMadison Brengle
- BridgeAlberta Brianti
- DestinationLucia Batta
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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