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
Elizabeth Schmidt
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 meeting01March 5, 2001View Elizabeth Schmidt × Ilona Vichnevskaya →02 BridgeOpen career →Ilona Vichnevskaya
1 meeting01March 5, 2001View Ilona Vichnevskaya × Conchita Martinez Granados →03Open career → 1 meeting01February 26, 2007View Conchita Martinez Granados × Kaia Kanepi →04 BridgeOpen career →Kaia Kanepi
2 meetings02May 17, 2021 — May 23, 2022View Kaia Kanepi × 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.
- OriginElizabeth Schmidt
- BridgeIlona Vichnevskaya
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginElizabeth Schmidt
- BridgeIlona Vichnevskaya
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginElizabeth Schmidt
- BridgeIlona Vichnevskaya
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginElizabeth Schmidt
- BridgeIlona Vichnevskaya
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- 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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