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
V Chapman
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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 meeting10August 12, 1996View Venus Williams × Linda Wild →03 BridgeOpen career →Linda Wild
1 meeting01August 1, 1972View Linda Wild × Fiorella Bonicelli →04 BridgeOpen career →Fiorella Bonicelli
1 meeting10September 14, 1970View Fiorella Bonicelli × Judith Salome →05 BridgeOpen career →Judith Salome
1 meeting10January 8, 1968View Judith Salome × Heather Mckechnie →06 BridgeOpen career →Heather Mckechnie
1 meeting10April 8, 1968View Heather Mckechnie × V Chapman →07 DestinationOpen career →V Chapman
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeEvonne Goolagong
- BridgeJudith Salome
- BridgeHeather Mckechnie
- DestinationV Chapman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeEvonne Goolagong
- BridgePatricia Edwards
- BridgeHeather Mckechnie
- DestinationV Chapman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgePatricia Edwards
- BridgeHeather Mckechnie
- DestinationV Chapman
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgePatricia Edwards
- BridgeHeather Mckechnie
- DestinationV Chapman
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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