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
Liu Shang Ku
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 meeting01June 13, 1977View Liu Shang Ku × Fiorella Bonicelli →02 BridgeOpen career →Fiorella Bonicelli
1 meeting10August 1, 1972View Fiorella Bonicelli × Linda Wild →03 BridgeOpen career →Linda Wild
1 meeting01August 12, 1996View Linda Wild × 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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