Where the 1540.5 rating comes from
From 178 matches played between 16 July 1990 and 8 November 1999, 175 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.
178 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Filip Dewulf 0–2
08/11/99 · ATP 250 1999 · Qualifying — First round · detail
−9.91550.4 → 1540.5
beaten by Goran Ivanišević 1–3
22/06/99 · ATP Grand Slam 1999 · Second round · detail
−8.61559.0 → 1550.4
beaten by Dusan Vemić 1–2
11/05/98 · ATP 1000 1998 · Qualifying — First round · detail
−14.51588.5 → 1574.0
beaten by Vince Spadea 1–2
09/03/98 · ATP 1000 1998 · Qualifying — Qualifying competition · detail
−12.21607.4 → 1595.2
beat Byron Black 2–0
09/03/98 · ATP 1000 1998 · Qualifying — First round · detail
+14.11593.3 → 1607.4
beaten by Michael Joyce 0–2
02/03/98 · ATP 250 1998 · Qualifying — First round · detail
−16.81610.1 → 1593.3
beat Steve Campbell 2–1
23/02/98 · ATP 500 1998 · Qualifying — Qualifying competition · detail
+9.71600.4 → 1610.1
beat Emilio Benfele Álvarez 3–0
24/06/97 · ATP Grand Slam 1997 · Second round · detail
+8.21650.0 → 1658.2
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.