Where the 1581.5 rating comes from
From 235 matches played between 1 January 1990 and 12 April 1999, 222 of them rated, 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.
235 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Jan-Michael Gambill
12/10/98 · ATP 500 1998 · Second round · walkover · detail
±0.01612.3 → 1612.3
beaten by Richard Krajicek 1–3
22/06/98 · ATP Grand Slam 1998 · First round · detail
−5.51634.8 → 1629.3
beaten by Alberto Berasategui 0–2
11/05/98 · ATP 1000 1998 · Quarterfinals · detail
−5.61587.9 → 1582.3
beaten by Christophe van Garsse 0–2
27/04/98 · ATP 250 1998 · First round · detail
−14.21617.6 → 1603.4
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.