🇿🇦 RSA

Mel Baleson

Active 1968–1970

6–15Win–loss

0Titles

0Grand Slams

0Masters

0Finals

110GOAT pts

Hard

3–8 (27.3%)

Clay

2–5 (28.6%)

Grass

1–2 (33.3%)

Season by season

Gold band: best three-year window (1968–1970).

Elo over time

Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 1524.

Match results

Hilversum Clay Tour

R64

Fred Hemmes Sr.

6-3 3-6 6-2

H2H

Beckenham Grass Tour

R64

Joaquin Loyo-Mayo

6-3 6-3

H2H

Manchester Grass Tour

R32	L	Butch Seewagen	6-3 7-5	H2H
R64	W	Ross Walker	6-2 4-6 6-4	H2H

Durban Hard Tour

R64

Mark Cox

6-4 6-3

H2H

Johannesburg Hard Tour

R64	L	Bob Hewitt	6-2 6-3 6-3	H2H
R128	W	Jeremy Smith	10-8 7-5 6-3	H2H

Methodology

Titles include Slams, Masters, Tour Finals, 500s, 250s, legacy tour events and Olympic gold; Davis Cup is excluded, and walkovers are excluded from all win–loss records. GOAT points value every round reached, scaled per tier (Slam title 2000 anchor; ranking includes Slam champions only, but every player's points are shown here). Elo is a chess-style rating over the full match history (K = 250/(n+5)^0.4); the timeline shows pre-match ratings, sampled. The gold band on the season chart marks the best three-consecutive-year window.