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
Paula Zabala
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10June 28, 2021View Coco Gauff × Elena Vesnina →02 BridgeOpen career →Elena Vesnina
2 meetings20April 6, 2009 — June 23, 2014View Elena Vesnina × Patricia Mayr Achleitner →03 BridgeOpen career →Patricia Mayr Achleitner
1 meeting10February 15, 2010View Patricia Mayr Achleitner × Paula Zabala →04 DestinationOpen career →Paula Zabala
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- BridgePatricia Mayr Achleitner
- DestinationPaula Zabala
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAngelique Kerber
- BridgePatricia Mayr Achleitner
- DestinationPaula Zabala
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- BridgePatricia Mayr Achleitner
- DestinationPaula Zabala
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- BridgePatricia Mayr Achleitner
- DestinationPaula Zabala
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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