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
Patty Mcquown
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
2 meetings20January 19, 1998 — May 25, 1998View Venus Williams × Alexia Dechaume Balleret →03 BridgeOpen career →Alexia Dechaume Balleret
1 meeting01January 4, 1988View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × Tina Mochizuki →04 BridgeOpen career →Tina Mochizuki
1 meeting10April 30, 1980View Tina Mochizuki × Deborah Douglas →05 BridgeOpen career →Deborah Douglas
1 meeting10April 29, 1981View Deborah Douglas × Patty Mcquown →06 DestinationOpen career →Patty Mcquown
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
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- BridgeDeborah Douglas
- DestinationPatty Mcquown
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeKate Latham
- BridgeDeborah Douglas
- DestinationPatty Mcquown
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- BridgeDeborah Douglas
- DestinationPatty Mcquown
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeBrenda Schultz Mccarthy
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- BridgeDeborah Douglas
- DestinationPatty Mcquown
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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