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
Debra Darrell
reaches
Coco Gauff
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 1 meeting01May 16, 1997View Debra Darrell × Elena Juricich →02 BridgeOpen career →Elena Juricich
1 meeting01April 15, 1998View Elena Juricich × Sonya Jeyaseelan →03 BridgeOpen career →Sonya Jeyaseelan
1 meeting10April 5, 1999View Sonya Jeyaseelan × Venus Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →05 DestinationOpen career →Coco Gauff
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.
- OriginDebra Darrell
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginDebra Darrell
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginDebra Darrell
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginDebra Darrell
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- DestinationCoco Gauff
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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