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
Ruth Haude
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 meeting10October 30, 1995View Venus Williams × Rosalyn Fairbank →03 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
2 meetings20December 3, 1979 — August 10, 1980View Rosalyn Fairbank × Diane Desfor →04 BridgeOpen career →Diane Desfor
1 meeting10June 26, 1977View Diane Desfor × Roylee Bailey →05 BridgeOpen career →Roylee Bailey
1 meeting10July 1, 1968View Roylee Bailey × Ruth Haude →06 DestinationOpen career →Ruth Haude
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeMary Carillo
- BridgeRoylee Bailey
- DestinationRuth Haude
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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