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
Lara Van Rooyen
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 meeting01September 7, 1998View Lara Van Rooyen × Bryanne Stewart →02 BridgeOpen career →Bryanne Stewart
4 meetings04March 2, 1998 — September 7, 1998View Bryanne Stewart × Alicia Molik →03 BridgeOpen career →Alicia Molik
5 meetings14May 24, 1999 — October 1, 2007View Alicia Molik × 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.
- OriginLara Van Rooyen
- BridgeBryanne Stewart
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginLara Van Rooyen
- BridgeBryanne Stewart
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeStefanie Voegele
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginLara Van Rooyen
- BridgeBryanne Stewart
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeKarolina Pliskova
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginLara Van Rooyen
- BridgeBryanne Stewart
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- 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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