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
Ludewig
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
9 meetings63October 31, 1994 — April 30, 2002View Venus Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →03 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings02August 14, 1989 — June 25, 1990View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Betsy Nagelsen →04 BridgeOpen career →Betsy Nagelsen
1 meeting10October 16, 1972View Betsy Nagelsen × Judy Gfroerer →05 BridgeOpen career →Judy Gfroerer
1 meeting10July 19, 1980View Judy Gfroerer × Ludewig →06 DestinationOpen career →Ludewig
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
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- BridgeJudy Gfroerer
- DestinationLudewig
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeEva Pfaff
- BridgeBaerbel Kehl
- DestinationLudewig
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- BridgeJudy Gfroerer
- DestinationLudewig
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeEva Pfaff
- BridgeBaerbel Kehl
- DestinationLudewig
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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