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
Kim Simmons
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 meeting01May 15, 1997View Kim Simmons × Paula Umana →02 BridgeOpen career →Paula Umana
2 meetings02April 11, 1994 — April 16, 1994View Paula Umana × Rossana De Los Rios →03 BridgeOpen career →Rossana De Los Rios
2 meetings02August 25, 2008 — June 21, 2010View Rossana De Los Rios × 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.
- OriginKim Simmons
- BridgePaula Umana
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKim Simmons
- BridgePaula Umana
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKim Simmons
- BridgePaula Umana
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginKim Simmons
- BridgePaula Umana
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeAngelique Kerber
- 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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