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
R Chlongbian
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
2 meetings11September 19, 1988 — May 29, 1989View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × Regina Marsikova →04 BridgeOpen career →Regina Marsikova
1 meeting10November 27, 1978View Regina Marsikova × Yolanda Sumarno →05 BridgeOpen career →Yolanda Sumarno
1 meeting10October 22, 1979View Yolanda Sumarno × R Chlongbian →06 DestinationOpen career →R Chlongbian
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
- BridgeBrigitte Simon Glinel
- BridgeYolanda Sumarno
- DestinationR Chlongbian
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeRegina Marsikova
- BridgeYolanda Sumarno
- DestinationR Chlongbian
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBrenda Perry
- BridgeYolanda Sumarno
- DestinationR Chlongbian
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeRegina Marsikova
- BridgeYolanda Sumarno
- DestinationR Chlongbian
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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