Central OC Times

Irvine tennis player Payton Nguyen is ranked 1,260th in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association in the week ending Oct. 1.

They had 544 total points, split between 444 single points and 667 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 1,248th 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.

Name	Total Points	Single Points	Doubles Points
Learner Tien	11,490	8,175	4,748
Avery Tallakson	3,832	3,067	3,057
Parashar Bharadwaj	2,843	1,760	2,265
Cayden Wang	2,686	1,677	3,330
Justin Chung	1,883	1,206	1,370
Anirudh Gupta	1,229	1,105	603
Yihao Huai	1,156	811	1,018
Grant Gallagher	1,052	772	1,568
Rohan Yarlagadda	994	891	616
Ethan B. Kim	981	858	790
Tobias Luo	917	656	644
Sanghyuk Im	883	712	1,142
Jayce Spurgiasz	851	810	125
Aj Moore	621	449	765
Rishvanth Krishna	578	519	248
Payton Nguyen	544	444	667
Daniel Choi	489	221	1,634
Ian Jiang	469	469	N/A
Sufyan Ashraf	452	406	308
Yu-Hong Chen	443	408	209
Winner Okey	371	301	456
Champion Okey	365	247	785
Hari Raghavan	336	336	N/A
Darren Lee	315	315	N/A
Ethan Jacob	255	255	N/A
Brayden Tallakson	233	149	456
Jayden Spurgiasz	227	216	74
Connor Hwang	178	163	98
Arystarkh Len	133	133	N/A
Aaron Zhu	118	102	105
Bradley Yung	116	116	N/A
Alex Croitoru	98	98	N/A
Prayag Ahire	95	54	270
Matthew Jingtao Yang	90	90	N/A
Yanting Li	90	90	N/A
Cedric Lichtsteiner	75	74	4
Ryu Sumida	74	73	6
Omar Khayat	72	N/A	477
Sam Shakiba	72	72	N/A
Adam Salhab	72	72	N/A
Ulysse Verrando	63	59	29
William Zhang	55	53	11
Michael Ishizaki	54	54	N/A
Roy Hashimoto	54	52	11
Langston Walter-Wu	46	43	17
Kyle Lien	42	42	N/A
Partha Dhana	40	40	N/A
Nicholas Kluber-Martinez	40	40	N/A
Joseph Chan	38	38	N/A
Brady Nguyen	38	36	10
Preston Graves	38	38	N/A
Rishi Vridhachalam	37	N/A	246
Evan Zhong	37	37	N/A
Isaac Stewart	36	32	25
Edward Yang	34	34	N/A
Krish Arora	33	N/A	222
Colin Tian	31	31	N/A
Shuntaro Araki	30	30	N/A
Sage Weinberg	30	30	N/A
Bryce Shirata	28	28	N/A
Joshua Tio	28	28	N/A
Blake Baek	27	27	N/A
Jack Fedro	25	25	N/A
Alex Dourbetas	24	24	N/A
Rohan Grewal	23	23	N/A
Tobias Law	23	23	N/A
Eugene Ban	23	23	N/A