They started December ranked 7,340th.
By the end of the month they’d earned 40 points across singles and doubles tournaments.
Players earn points per round in tournaments, winning higher points the further into a tournament they advance.
Jarett Cascino of New York Tennis Magazine says tennis is one of the most competitive youth sports.
“There is always someone better than you on any given day, even if you are the number one player in the world!” he said.
Rankings are released weekly.
Junior Boys’ 14 rankings in December
Name | Starting Rank | Ending Rank | Total Points at end of December |
---|---|---|---|
Lixing Jiang | 99 | 99 | 3,462 |
Yuanye Ma | 440 | 449 | 1,199 |
Kotaro Kunimoto | 551 | 568 | 987 |
Blair Chen | 716 | 724 | 814 |
Alexander Sanford | 811 | 834 | 721 |
Surya Dedatta | 914 | 835 | 721 |
Sandy Li | 2,771 | 2,837 | 225 |
Thomas Li | 3,255 | 3,053 | 200 |
Lucas Tung | 4,425 | 4,577 | 100 |
Owen Schroeder | 4,524 | 4,691 | 96 |
Andrew Zhao | 5,020 | 5,211 | 78 |
Nikhil Muthiah | 5,261 | 5,477 | 71 |
Atharv Mahajan | 5,393 | 5,613 | 68 |
Holden Lee | 5,662 | 5,964 | 60 |
Pragyan Veluvali | 6,040 | 6,265 | 54 |
Justin Oh | 7,340 | 7,021 | 40 |
Arnav Pendse | 6,833 | 7,108 | 39 |