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There are 21 junior tennis players from Palo Alto ranked in the Boys’ 14 category in the week ending Aug. 12 by the United States Tennis Association.

There were 22 junior tennis players who ranked in Boys' 14 bracket the previous week.

Lixing Jiang is the top ranked boy in the category with 7,144 points.

Players earn points by winning matches in tournaments, with bonus points awarded based on the standing of their opponent.

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.

Rank	Name	Bonus Points
21	Lixing Jiang	1,838
154	Yuanye Ma	551
693	Surya Dedatta	32
1,359	Blair Chen	50
1,579	Sandy Li	0
1,899	Thomas Li	0
3,018	Pragyan Veluvali	0
3,308	Lucas Tung	0
4,080	Owen Li	0
4,722	Kotaro Kato	0
6,170	Oakley Koegler	0
6,252	Atharv Mahajan	0
6,341	Andrew Zhao	0
6,614	Holden Lee	0
6,886	Nuri Hafizi	0
6,900	Kai Hashimoto	0
8,529	Arnav Pendse	0
8,729	Nikhil Muthiah	0
8,756	Ian Liu	0
9,402	Michael Wu	0
9,610	Daniel Tsui	0