John Sullivan

Where the 1478.4 rating comes from

From 3 matches played between 15 July 1991 and 17 January 1994, 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 Todd Woodbridge 2–3
17/01/94 · ATP Grand Slam 1994 · detail
−25.21503.6 → 1478.4
beat Jimmy Brown 2–0
15/07/91 · ATP 500 1991 · First round · detail
+17.61485.9 → 1503.6
beaten by Brad Gilbert 1–2
15/07/91 · ATP 500 1991 · Second round · detail
−14.11500.0 → 1485.9

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.