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
Yoko Kobayashi
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 meeting10June 24, 2002View Venus Williams × Maureen Drake →03 BridgeOpen career →Maureen Drake
1 meeting01April 24, 1989View Maureen Drake × Hu Na →04 BridgeOpen career →Hu Na
1 meeting10November 12, 1980View Hu Na × Yoko Kobayashi →05 DestinationOpen career →Yoko Kobayashi
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeHu Na
- DestinationYoko Kobayashi
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeHu Na
- DestinationYoko Kobayashi
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- BridgeHu Na
- DestinationYoko Kobayashi
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- BridgeHu Na
- DestinationYoko Kobayashi
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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