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
Gillian Van Der Merwe
reaches
Coco Gauff
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 meetings02March 29, 1971 — April 5, 1971View Gillian Van Der Merwe × Margaret Court →02 BridgeOpen career →Margaret Court
23 meetings185January 19, 1968 — September 16, 1975View Margaret Court × Evonne Goolagong →03 BridgeOpen career →Evonne Goolagong
1 meeting10June 4, 1979View Evonne Goolagong × Rosalyn Fairbank →04 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
1 meeting01October 30, 1995View Rosalyn Fairbank × Venus Williams →05 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginGillian Van Der Merwe
- BridgeMargaret Court
- BridgeBillie Jean King
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginGillian Van Der Merwe
- BridgeMargaret Court
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginGillian Van Der Merwe
- BridgeMargaret Court
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginGillian Van Der Merwe
- BridgeMargaret Court
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- 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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