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
Lara Smejkal
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01April 16, 2022View Lara Smejkal × Reka Luca Jani →02 BridgeOpen career →Reka Luca Jani
1 meeting01February 3, 2016View Reka Luca Jani × Tsvetana Pironkova →03 BridgeOpen career →Tsvetana Pironkova
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Tsvetana Pironkova × 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.
- OriginLara Smejkal
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginLara Smejkal
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- BridgeSloane Stephens
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginLara Smejkal
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- BridgeSimona Halep
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginLara Smejkal
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- BridgeBelinda Bencic
- 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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