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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Mrs S Hunter
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

1,345 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01April 26, 1976
    View Mrs S Hunter × J Sim
  2. 1 meeting01April 26, 1976
    View J Sim × Belinda Thompson
  3. 2 meetings02June 4, 1979 — May 10, 1980
    View Belinda Thompson × Rosalyn Fairbank
  4. 2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020
    View Venus Williams × 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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