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
Oksana Yarikova
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 meeting10March 9, 1995View Oksana Yarikova × Jil Lin Leong →02 BridgeOpen career →Jil Lin Leong
1 meeting01February 22, 1996View Jil Lin Leong × Claudine Toleafoa →03 BridgeOpen career →Claudine Toleafoa
1 meeting01February 24, 1992View Claudine Toleafoa × Jolene Watanabe →04 BridgeOpen career →Jolene Watanabe
1 meeting01April 7, 1997View Jolene Watanabe × 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.
- OriginOksana Yarikova
- BridgeJil Lin Leong
- BridgeClaudine Toleafoa
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginOksana Yarikova
- BridgeJil Lin Leong
- BridgeClaudine Toleafoa
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginOksana Yarikova
- BridgeJil Lin Leong
- BridgeClaudine Toleafoa
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginOksana Yarikova
- BridgeJil Lin Leong
- BridgeClaudine Toleafoa
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- 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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