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
Tracy Austin
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10August 9, 1993View Tracy Austin × Elena Likhovtseva →02 BridgeOpen career →Elena Likhovtseva
9 meetings09October 27, 1997 — July 19, 2004View Elena Likhovtseva × Venus Williams →03 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginTracy Austin
- BridgeElena Likhovtseva
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginTracy Austin
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginTracy Austin
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginTracy Austin
- BridgeLindsay Davenport
- 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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