Where the 1596.8 rating comes from
From 19 matches played between 1 January 1971 and 1 January 1989, 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.
19 matches, from the most recent to the first
beat Zoran Primorac 3–1
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Round of 16 · detail
+10.81586.0 → 1596.8
beaten by Jan-Ove Waldner 1–3
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Quarterfinals · detail
−9.41595.5 → 1586.0
beat Mikael Appelgren 3–0
01/01/81 · World Table Tennis Championships 1981 · Round of 16 · detail
+26.61462.0 → 1488.6
beaten by Guo Yuehua 1–3
01/01/81 · World Table Tennis Championships 1981 · Quarterfinals · detail
−14.81476.8 → 1462.0
beaten by Lu Yaohua 1–3
01/01/79 · World Table Tennis Championships 1979 · Round of 16 · detail
−25.51502.2 → 1476.8
beaten by Yao-hua 2–3
01/01/77 · World Table Tennis Championships 1977 · Quarterfinals · detail
−25.41527.7 → 1502.2
beat Antun Stipančić 3–1
01/01/77 · World Table Tennis Championships 1977 · Round of 16 · detail
+29.01498.6 → 1527.7
beaten by En-ting 1–3
01/01/71 · World Table Tennis Championships 1971 · Quarterfinals · detail
−27.41526.1 → 1498.6
beat Antun Stipančić 3–2
01/01/71 · World Table Tennis Championships 1971 · Round of 16 · detail
+26.11500.0 → 1526.1
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.