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
Vajira Premaratne
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01July 18, 1991View Vajira Premaratne × Karin Ptaszek →02 BridgeOpen career →Karin Ptaszek
1 meeting01March 27, 1996View Karin Ptaszek × Elena Tatarkova →03 BridgeOpen career →Elena Tatarkova
1 meeting01June 21, 1999View Elena Tatarkova × Venus Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginVajira Premaratne
- BridgeLee Chan
- BridgeYuka Yoshida
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginVajira Premaratne
- BridgeLee Chan
- BridgeTing Li
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginVajira Premaratne
- BridgeLee Chan
- BridgeChin Bee Khoo
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginVajira Premaratne
- BridgeIl Soon Kim
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- 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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