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
Keiko Ishida
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
01 1 meeting01September 12, 1995View Keiko Ishida × Ai Sugiyama →02 BridgeOpen career →Ai Sugiyama
7 meetings07March 7, 1997 — December 30, 2001View Ai Sugiyama × Venus Williams →03 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginKeiko Ishida
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKeiko Ishida
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKeiko Ishida
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- BridgePetra Kvitova
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKeiko Ishida
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- BridgeStefanie Voegele
- 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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