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
Wei Yen Lai
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 4, 1998View Venus Williams × Yayuk Basuki →03 BridgeOpen career →Yayuk Basuki
1 meeting10March 11, 1997View Yayuk Basuki × Gaye Mcmanus →04 BridgeOpen career →Gaye Mcmanus
1 meeting10February 22, 1996View Gaye Mcmanus × Wei Yen Lai →05 DestinationOpen career →Wei Yen Lai
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeGaye Mcmanus
- DestinationWei Yen Lai
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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