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
Ya Fang Tsai
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 meeting10May 27, 2002View Venus Williams × Wynne Prakusya →03 BridgeOpen career →Wynne Prakusya
1 meeting10February 18, 1998View Wynne Prakusya × Lilia Biktyakova →04 BridgeOpen career →Lilia Biktyakova
1 meeting01February 26, 1999View Lilia Biktyakova × Irawati Iskandar →05 BridgeOpen career →Irawati Iskandar
1 meeting10April 28, 2000View Irawati Iskandar × Ya Fang Tsai →06 DestinationOpen career →Ya Fang Tsai
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
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeLeanne Baker
- BridgeYik Hui Leow
- BridgeIrawati Iskandar
- DestinationYa Fang Tsai
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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