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
Marisa Howell
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01April 28, 1998View Marisa Howell × Kelly Holland →02 BridgeOpen career →Kelly Holland
1 meeting01April 27, 1998View Kelly Holland × Karin Palme →03 BridgeOpen career →Karin Palme
1 meeting01April 14, 1999View Karin Palme × Paola Suarez →04 BridgeOpen career →Paola Suarez
2 meetings02April 8, 2002 — May 3, 2004View Paola Suarez × Venus Williams →05 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMarisa Howell
- BridgeKelly Holland
- BridgeKarin Palme
- BridgeFabiola Zuluaga
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginMarisa Howell
- BridgeKelly Holland
- BridgeKarin Palme
- BridgeMelinda Czink
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginMarisa Howell
- BridgeKelly Holland
- BridgeKarin Palme
- BridgeMelinda Czink
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginMarisa Howell
- BridgeKelly Holland
- BridgeKarin Palme
- BridgeMelinda Czink
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- 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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