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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Irene Petru
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

2,397 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01May 17, 1982
    View Irene Petru × Yvona Brzakova →
  2. 1 meeting01August 3, 1981
    View Yvona Brzakova × Sue Barker →
  3. 5 meetings23December 3, 1979 — November 19, 1984
    View Sue Barker × Rosalyn Fairbank →
  4. 1 meeting01October 30, 1995
    View Rosalyn Fairbank × Venus Williams →
  5. 2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020
    View Venus Williams × 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.

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.

Reverse the route →