Tom Mercer

Where the 1435.4 rating comes from

From 3 matches played between 7 May 1990 and 17 August 1992, 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 Stéphane Sansoni 1–2
17/08/92 · ATP 500 1992 · First round · detail
−23.71459.1 → 1435.4
beaten by Javier Frana 0–2
08/07/91 · ATP 250 1991 · First round · detail
−21.51480.6 → 1459.1
beaten by Richey Reneberg 0–2
07/05/90 · ATP 250 1990 · First round · detail
−19.41500.0 → 1480.6

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.