Central OC Times

Irvine tennis player Jiakang Chen finished 9,423rd in December in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 9,126th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 17 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.

Name	Starting Rank	Ending Rank	Total Points at end of December
Rishvanth Krishna	69	68	4,285
Brayden Tallakson	187	193	2,247
Ethan John	200	204	2,161
Alex Croitoru	473	317	1,579
Jihyuk Im	487	488	1,125
Rohan Grewal	557	501	1,102
Connor Hwang	636	607	945
Reid Hashimoto	943	951	647
Kaiden Somaratne	1,068	1,104	576
Christopher Hong	1,186	1,213	537
Siddharth Bharadwaj	1,401	1,449	472
Aditya Joshi	1,442	1,488	461
William Zhang	2,247	1,884	380
Nathan Han	2,085	2,160	323
Langston Walter-Wu	2,102	2,177	320
Champion Okey	2,190	2,254	302
Harry Su	2,191	2,259	302
Arjun Appa	2,356	2,264	301
Roy Hashimoto	2,460	2,554	260
Cedric Lichtsteiner	2,461	2,556	260
Ziming Tang	3,303	3,122	195
Aashray Atmakur	3,080	3,217	187
Ayan Iqbal	3,299	3,444	168
Trevor Cheng	3,451	3,597	154
Tyler Chandler	3,606	3,738	144
Preston Graves	4,057	3,863	136
Yanting Li	4,047	4,015	128
Alfred Du	4,343	4,186	120
Reyansh Pant	4,205	4,344	111
Ivan Lin	4,603	4,353	110
Brody Jao	4,434	4,589	100
Philip Suk	4,503	4,669	96
Gavin Hui	4,927	4,712	95
Peter Lin-Tsai III	4,568	4,737	94
Tobias Law	4,822	4,990	86
Justin Qiao	6,326	5,145	80
Eugene Ban	8,422	5,162	80
Ryan Park	5,970	5,165	80
Donald Cao	5,003	5,185	79
Sebastian Magers	6,254	5,291	76
Sameer Grewal	5,130	5,328	76
Aurele Verrando	5,055	5,340	75
Sage Weinberg	5,202	5,421	72
Winner Okey	5,344	5,558	68
Tianlin Bao	6,297	5,759	64
Matthew Sato	5,550	5,776	64
Justin Zhang	5,869	5,858	61
Ethan Jacob	6,004	6,223	54
Preston Wu	6,039	6,266	54
Yohaan Murthy	6,345	6,591	48
Nison Cai	6,359	6,756	45
Guannan Du	7,029	6,765	45
Kristian Petrov	6,693	6,831	44
Hongyi Zhou	N/A	6,849	43
Isaac Chhiv	6,667	6,925	41
Louie Hanson	7,019	7,298	38
Lawrence Liu	7,100	7,383	36
Andrew Zhang	7,174	7,402	36
Siyuan Wang	7,149	7,427	35
Maximos Venidis	7,176	7,452	35
Blake Fraley	7,177	7,456	35
Selim Youssef	7,180	7,459	34
Ian Lee	7,529	7,507	34
Shivi Goyal	7,354	7,640	32
Rohan Appa	7,926	7,782	32
Taha Nasir	7,534	7,812	31
Jalen Chiou	7,537	7,814	31
Gabriel Kluber Martinez	7,794	7,890	30
Partha Dhana	7,787	7,898	30
Anthony Nguyen	7,852	8,137	30
Aidan Chew	8,579	8,300	28
Kyler Somaratne	8,186	8,479	25
Jack Fedro	8,192	8,493	24
Aidan Lai	8,301	8,546	24
Evan Li	8,304	8,548	24
Mourya Nunna	8,266	8,556	24
Ian Kim	8,423	8,686	24
Junxi Pan	N/A	8,789	24
Fu-Lin Damon Ko	N/A	8,864	23
Neel Topkar	8,610	8,905	22
Gavin Yue	9,148	8,941	22
Parker Wu	8,684	8,981	21
Rain Yu	8,819	9,105	20
Myles Nelson	8,835	9,117	20
Vinay Chakravarthy	8,838	9,120	20
Kenton Roh	9,133	9,122	20
Henry Yang	4,525	9,175	19
Timofey Sorokin	9,649	9,332	18
Jiakang Chen	9,126	9,423	17
Aaron Ly	9,146	9,435	17
Caleb Saputra	9,339	9,625	16
Frank Lin	9,244	9,739	16
Enzo Mirko	9,301	9,753	16
Easton Jiang	9,655	9,955	16