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
Seibuchler
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 meeting01December 9, 1981View Seibuchler × Martina Reinhardt →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Reinhardt
1 meeting01August 3, 1981View Martina Reinhardt × Katja Ebbinghaus →03 BridgeOpen career →Katja Ebbinghaus
1 meeting10May 17, 1982View Katja Ebbinghaus × Steffi Graf →04 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
5 meetings32August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × 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 2 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSeibuchler
- BridgeMartina Reinhardt
- BridgeGabriela Dinu
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginSeibuchler
- BridgeMartina Reinhardt
- BridgeGabriela Dinu
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeVenus Williams
- 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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