They started December ranked 9,282nd.
By the end of the month they’d earned 18 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’ 18 rankings in December
| Name | Starting Rank | Ending Rank | Total Points at end of December |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learner Tien | 10 | 10 | 8,480 |
| Aj Moore | 117 | 119 | 3,493 |
| Conrad Brown | 142 | 144 | 3,116 |
| Avery Tallakson | 180 | 180 | 2,742 |
| Rithvik Krishna | 208 | 212 | 2,450 |
| Parashar Bharadwaj | 210 | 214 | 2,425 |
| Sam De Vries | 223 | 228 | 2,301 |
| Daniel Choi | 257 | 256 | 2,153 |
| Justin Chung | 419 | 431 | 1,471 |
| Cayden Wang | 443 | 452 | 1,414 |
| Yihao Huai | 528 | 531 | 1,223 |
| Grant Gallagher | 623 | 639 | 1,035 |
| Rohan Yarlagadda | 922 | 953 | 708 |
| Ian Jiang | 1,087 | 1,107 | 599 |
| Jiaxi Ma | 1,287 | 1,307 | 506 |
| Payton Nguyen | 1,366 | 1,342 | 495 |
| Jayce Spurgiasz | 1,370 | 1,386 | 479 |
| Tobias Luo | 1,915 | 1,554 | 418 |
| Omar Khayat | 1,713 | 1,731 | 365 |
| Mason Tran | 1,874 | 1,898 | 328 |
| Sanghyuk Im | 2,018 | 2,042 | 300 |
| Ethan B. Kim | 3,046 | 2,182 | 278 |
| Anirudh Gupta | 2,174 | 2,203 | 275 |
| Darren Lee | 2,432 | 2,480 | 235 |
| Hari Raghavan | 2,763 | 2,784 | 201 |
| Jayden Spurgiasz | 3,382 | 3,425 | 147 |
| Arystarkh Len | 4,256 | 3,877 | 122 |
| Eric Lee | 4,194 | 4,252 | 105 |
| Konrad Walter-Wu | 4,519 | 4,600 | 92 |
| Champion Okey | 5,413 | 5,470 | 66 |
| Ethan John | 5,607 | 5,657 | 62 |
| Connor Hwang | 6,566 | 5,950 | 59 |
| Prayag Ahire | 6,067 | 6,114 | 54 |
| Winner Okey | 6,257 | 6,327 | 50 |
| Sufyan Ashraf | 6,378 | 6,467 | 48 |
| Adam Salhab | 7,923 | 6,478 | 48 |
| Alex Croitoru | 6,714 | 6,825 | 42 |
| Brayden Tallakson | 6,729 | 6,835 | 42 |
| David Chen | 6,750 | 6,851 | 42 |
| Krish Arora | 468 | 7,425 | 33 |
| Rishi Vridhachalam | 7,357 | 7,461 | 33 |
| Brady Nguyen | 7,371 | 7,475 | 33 |
| Arjun Dabir | 8,438 | 8,548 | 24 |
| Joshua Tio | 8,559 | 8,660 | 24 |
| Ulysse Verrando | 8,598 | 8,693 | 23 |
| Rishvanth Krishna | 8,747 | 8,858 | 21 |
| Ryu Sumida | 9,190 | 9,321 | 18 |
| Sam Shakiba | 9,282 | 9,429 | 18 |
| Alex Dourbetas | 9,402 | 9,551 | 17 |
| Edward Yang | N/A | 9,980 | 15 |
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