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 R Cahill
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
4 meetings40March 6, 1978 — April 8, 1985View Pam Shriver × Kerry Reid →05 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Reid
1 meeting10June 10, 1968View Kerry Reid × Sylvia Stott →06 BridgeOpen career →Sylvia Stott
1 meeting10May 20, 1968View Sylvia Stott × Mrs R Cahill →07 DestinationOpen career →Mrs R Cahill
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
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeAnne Smith
- BridgeKerry Reid
- BridgeSylvia Stott
- DestinationMrs R Cahill
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeKerry Reid
- BridgeSylvia Stott
- DestinationMrs R Cahill
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeKerry Harris
- BridgeSylvia Stott
- DestinationMrs R Cahill
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeKerry Reid
- BridgeSylvia Stott
- DestinationMrs R Cahill
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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