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
Lani Wilcox
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 meeting01July 12, 1982View Lani Wilcox × Shelley Solomon →02 BridgeOpen career →Shelley Solomon
1 meeting01May 28, 1984View Shelley Solomon × Steffi Graf →03 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
5 meetings32August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Venus Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →05 DestinationOpen career →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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