TENNISGOAT

🇿🇦 RSA · Right-handed · b. 1961-04-16

Schalk Van Der Merwe

Active 1978–1986 · best rank seen: 143

10–20
0
0
0
0
370
Hard
8–12 (40.0%)
Clay
1–6 (14.3%)
Grass
1–2 (33.3%)

Grand Slam record

'82
Australian Open
Roland Garros
Wimbledon 2R
US Open 3R

Season by season

Peak window 1981–1983 137 275 1978: 10 pts 1980: 25 pts 1981: 20 pts 1982: 255 pts 1983: 40 pts 1986: 20 pts 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986

Gold band: best three-year window (1981–1983).

Elo over time

1500 1600 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986

Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 1657.

Match results

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.