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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
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Karin Stampfli
reaches
Coco Gauff

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

1,305 players examined
  1. 7 meetings25May 26, 1997 — July 30, 2001
    View Nathalie Tauziat × Venus Williams
  2. 2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020
    View Venus Williams × Coco 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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