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
Mrs L Love
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
1 meeting10May 7, 2001View Venus Williams × Karina Habsudova →03 BridgeOpen career →Karina Habsudova
1 meeting10August 19, 1996View Karina Habsudova × Pam Shriver →04 BridgeOpen career →Pam Shriver
1 meeting10January 23, 1978View Pam Shriver × Sue Mappin →05 BridgeOpen career →Sue Mappin
1 meeting10April 15, 1974View Sue Mappin × Susan Battersby →06 BridgeOpen career →Susan Battersby
1 meeting10April 22, 1974View Susan Battersby × Mrs L Love →07 DestinationOpen career →Mrs L Love
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeSue Mappin
- BridgeSusan Battersby
- DestinationMrs L Love
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeSusan Battersby
- DestinationMrs L Love
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgePatti Hogan
- BridgeSusan Battersby
- DestinationMrs L Love
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeSue Mappin
- BridgeSusan Battersby
- DestinationMrs L Love
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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