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
Vivian Grisogono
reaches
Coco Gauff
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01May 6, 1968View Vivian Grisogono × Jane Fitzalan Howard →02 BridgeOpen career →Jane Fitzalan Howard
1 meeting01May 5, 1969View Jane Fitzalan Howard × Christiane Spinoza →03 BridgeOpen career →Christiane Spinoza
1 meeting01September 21, 1970View Christiane Spinoza × Sharon Walsh Pete →04 BridgeOpen career →Sharon Walsh Pete
6 meetings24June 8, 1980 — August 10, 1987View Sharon Walsh Pete × Rosalyn Fairbank →05 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
1 meeting01October 30, 1995View Rosalyn Fairbank × Venus Williams →06 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings02July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Venus Williams × Coco Gauff →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginVivian Grisogono
- BridgeJane Fitzalan Howard
- BridgeChristiane Spinoza
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginVivian Grisogono
- BridgeJane Fitzalan Howard
- BridgeChristiane Spinoza
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginVivian Grisogono
- BridgeJane Fitzalan Howard
- BridgeChristiane Spinoza
- BridgePam Teeguarden
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationCoco Gauff
- OriginVivian Grisogono
- BridgeJane Fitzalan Howard
- BridgeChristiane Spinoza
- BridgeFiorella Bonicelli
- BridgeLinda Wild
- 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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