Where the 1439.3 rating comes from
From 3 matches played between 1 January 1954 and 1 January 1957, and from them alone. Every line below was written at computation time: nothing is recomputed to show this page.
How to read this
On the right: the change this match produced, then the value before → after. A line's arrival value is the next line's starting value, down to the starting rating given to every newcomer. A ±0.0 is a counted match that did not move the rating, a walkover for instance.
3 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Keisuke Tsunoda 1–3
01/01/57 · World Table Tennis Championships 1957 · Round of 16 · detail
−22.71462.0 → 1439.3
beaten by Johnny Leach 0–3
01/01/55 · World Table Tennis Championships 1955 · Round of 16 · detail
−16.71478.7 → 1462.0
beaten by René Roothooft 0–3
01/01/54 · World Table Tennis Championships 1954 · Round of 16 · detail
−21.31500.0 → 1478.7
Only the matches the source publishes appear; what is missing is listed. The source gives the day, not the hour: two matches on the same day are ordered by a reproducible rule, which is not necessarily the real order.