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
S Longbottom
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
9 meetings63October 31, 1994 — April 30, 2002View Venus Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →03 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings11October 20, 1987 — April 3, 1989View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Sara Gomer →04 BridgeOpen career →Sara Gomer
1 meeting10April 19, 1982View Sara Gomer × Amanda Jones →05 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Jones
1 meeting10February 27, 1981View Amanda Jones × S Longbottom →06 DestinationOpen career →S Longbottom
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
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeAmanda Jones
- DestinationS Longbottom
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeAmanda Jones
- DestinationS Longbottom
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeAmanda Jones
- DestinationS Longbottom
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeAmanda Jones
- DestinationS Longbottom
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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