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
Yuko Ono
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 7, 2001View Venus Williams × Karina Habsudova →03 BridgeOpen career →Karina Habsudova
3 meetings12March 4, 1991 — August 10, 1992View Karina Habsudova × Laura Arraya →04 BridgeOpen career →Laura Arraya
1 meeting10March 22, 1982View Laura Arraya × Jan Blackstad →05 BridgeOpen career →Jan Blackstad
1 meeting10June 1, 1982View Jan Blackstad × Yuko Ono →06 DestinationOpen career →Yuko Ono
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgePatty Oreilly
- BridgeJan Blackstad
- DestinationYuko Ono
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLuciana Corsato Owsianka
- BridgeJan Blackstad
- DestinationYuko Ono
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeKim Steinmetz
- BridgeJan Blackstad
- DestinationYuko Ono
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeLilian Drescher
- BridgeJan Blackstad
- DestinationYuko Ono
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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