A tensor v is the sum of at least rank(v) elementary tensors. In addition, a 'border rank' is defined: rank(w) = r holds if r is the minimum integer such that w is a limit of rank-r tensors. Usually, the set of rankr tensors is not closed, i.e. tensors with r = rank(w) < rank(w) may exist. It is easy to see that in such a case the representation of rank-r tensors v contains diverging elementary tensors as v approaches w. In a first part, we recall results about the uniform strength of the divergence in the case of general nonclosed tensor formats (restricted to finite dimensions). The second part discusses the r-term format for infinite-dimensional tensor spaces. It is shown that the general situation is very similar to the behaviour of finite-dimensional model spaces. The third part contains the main result: it is proved that in the case of rank(w) = 2 < rank(w) the divergence strength is ε −1/2 , i.e. if v − w < ε and rank(v) ≤ 2, the parameters of v increase at least proportionally to ε −1/2 .