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
Fiona Moffitt
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 meeting01July 31, 1978View Fiona Moffitt × Anne Hobbs →02 BridgeOpen career →Anne Hobbs
1 meeting10June 15, 1987View Anne Hobbs × Nathalie Tauziat →03 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
7 meetings25May 26, 1997 — July 30, 2001View Nathalie Tauziat × 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.
- OriginFiona Moffitt
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginFiona Moffitt
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginFiona Moffitt
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginFiona Moffitt
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeVenus Williams
- 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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