Alex Croitoru ranks 930th in Boys’ 16 bracket in week ending Oct. 1

By Central OC Times

Oct 7, 2022

Irvine tennis player Alex Croitoru is ranked 930th in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association in the week ending Oct. 1.

They had 750 total points, split between 639 single points and 442 double points. USTA rankings are determined by adding 100 percent of singles points and 15 percent of doubles points plus any bonus points earned.

They were ranked 929th the week before.

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.

Standings are released weekly.

Irvine Junior Boys’ 16 rankings in week ending Oct. 1

Name	Total Points	Single Points	Doubles Points
Cayden Wang	6,445	4,218	6,135
Tobias Luo	3,737	2,589	1,574
Rohan Yarlagadda	2,010	1,436	2,403
Anirudh Gupta	1,830	1,566	855
Ethan B. Kim	1,801	1,518	1,668
Brayden Tallakson	1,648	860	2,750
Rishvanth Krishna	1,527	1,185	1,203
Yu-Hong Chen	1,524	1,290	1,042
Payton Nguyen	1,046	815	1,537
Alex Croitoru	750	639	442
Arystarkh Len	667	667	N/A
Winner Okey	618	517	600
Aaron Zhu	591	510	542
Connor Hwang	543	454	595
Ryu Sumida	373	368	30
Rohan Grewal	357	312	177
Jayden Spurgiasz	356	301	369
Adam Salhab	355	355	N/A
Ulysse Verrando	316	294	144
William Zhang	315	276	260
Sam Shakiba	290	290	N/A
Jihyuk Im	286	206	281
Bradley Yung	279	279	N/A
Langston Walter-Wu	251	234	113
Yanting Li	248	248	N/A
Siddharth Bharadwaj	234	221	N/A
Christopher Hong	218	168	317
Joseph Chan	210	210	N/A
Ethan John	205	144	335
Preston Graves	198	198	N/A
Evan Zhong	194	194	N/A
Brady Nguyen	188	180	50
Isaac Stewart	179	160	125
Colin Tian	177	177	N/A
Edward Yang	168	168	N/A
Tobias Law	150	145	30
Champion Okey	148	N/A	987
Sage Weinberg	148	148	N/A
Jack Fedro	147	147	N/A
Eugene Ban	140	140	N/A
Bryce Shirata	140	140	N/A
Daniel Zhu	139	136	20
Reid Hashimoto	137	100	214
Hongyi Zhou	126	126	N/A
Aditya Joshi	121	108	40
Kaiden Somaratne	112	98	83
Roy Hashimoto	111	100	72
Cedric Lichtsteiner	102	99	20
Alfred Du	101	101	N/A
Chinh Dang	99	99	N/A
Mourya Nunna	98	98	N/A
Kyle Lien	92	92	N/A
Justin Zhang	89	88	4
Nathan Han	87	83	28
Tyler Chandler	83	81	11
Shivi Goyal	71	71	N/A
Aashray Atmakur	68	66	10
Arjun Appa	57	54	21
Shuntaro Araki	57	57	N/A
Blake Baek	56	56	N/A
Jason Wang	56	56	N/A
Ziming Tang	55	55	2
Jeremy Ha	54	54	N/A
Gavin Hui	49	48	4
Jason Ren	47	47	N/A
Weiyi Zhao	46	46	N/A
Henry Yang	45	45	N/A
Vinay Chakravarthy	43	43	N/A
Alex Dourbetas	40	40	N/A
Trevor Cheng	40	40	N/A
Lawrence Liu	39	39	N/A
Smaran Mallojula	38	38	N/A
Landon Le	37	36	8
Ayan Iqbal	37	37	N/A
Roy Baek	36	36	N/A
Aidan Lai	36	36	N/A
Alexander Tran	36	36	N/A
Owen Chuang	36	36	N/A