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
Tarryn Rudman
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 meeting10April 5, 2021View Coco Gauff × Tsvetana Pironkova →02 BridgeOpen career →Tsvetana Pironkova
2 meetings11April 19, 2004 — July 24, 2006View Tsvetana Pironkova × Maret Ani →03 BridgeOpen career →Maret Ani
1 meeting10February 2, 2008View Maret Ani × Tarryn Rudman →04 DestinationOpen career →Tarryn Rudman
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
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- DestinationTarryn Rudman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- BridgeMaret Ani
- DestinationTarryn Rudman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- BridgeCagla Buyukakcay
- DestinationTarryn Rudman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- BridgeCagla Buyukakcay
- DestinationTarryn Rudman
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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