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
Rachel Paul
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
1 meeting10May 7, 2001View Venus Williams × Karina Habsudova →03 BridgeOpen career →Karina Habsudova
1 meeting10October 18, 1993View Karina Habsudova × Catherine Tanvier →04 BridgeOpen career →Catherine Tanvier
1 meeting10October 24, 1983View Catherine Tanvier × Shelly Walpole →05 BridgeOpen career →Shelly Walpole
1 meeting10April 8, 1982View Shelly Walpole × Rachel Paul →06 DestinationOpen career →Rachel Paul
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
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeCatarina Lindqvist Ryan
- BridgeLisa Pennington
- DestinationRachel Paul
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeClaudia Kohde Kilsch
- BridgeShelly Walpole
- DestinationRachel Paul
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeShelly Walpole
- DestinationRachel Paul
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeClaudia Kohde Kilsch
- BridgeShelly Walpole
- DestinationRachel Paul
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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