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
Margie Rennie
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 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →04 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
3 meetings30October 15, 1973 — February 7, 1977View Chris Evert × Kristien Shaw →05 BridgeOpen career →Kristien Shaw
1 meeting10December 1, 1971View Kristien Shaw × Margie Rennie →06 DestinationOpen career →Margie Rennie
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
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeKristien Shaw
- DestinationMargie Rennie
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeKristien Shaw
- DestinationMargie Rennie
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- BridgeKristien Shaw
- DestinationMargie Rennie
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeKristien Shaw
- DestinationMargie Rennie
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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