They started December ranked 9,114th.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Bauer | 60 | 61 | 4,834 |
| Eshaan Dani | 309 | 460 | 1,381 |
| Cortland Grove | 611 | 628 | 1,047 |
| Jason Kim | 8,312 | 718 | 913 |
| Michael Thomas | 1,432 | 1,455 | 454 |
| Aidan Atwood | 1,485 | 1,501 | 439 |
| Myan Ponugoti | 1,841 | 2,028 | 304 |
| Richard Zhou | 1,886 | 2,087 | 294 |
| Aryan Paliwal | 2,118 | 2,136 | 286 |
| Akhil Sodadasi | 2,134 | 2,158 | 283 |
| Srihan Jairam | 3,131 | 3,172 | 166 |
| Riley Riggs | 3,729 | 3,798 | 126 |
| Stef Spatar | 4,381 | 4,297 | 104 |
| Chetan Challa | 4,736 | 4,509 | 96 |
| Sean Park | 5,250 | 4,931 | 83 |
| Christopher Park | 4,958 | 5,130 | 76 |
| Bahuliya Manyapu | 5,291 | 5,347 | 70 |
| Joseph Dewey | 5,724 | 5,795 | 60 |
| Dylan Shin | 5,825 | 5,878 | 60 |
| Advay Velumani | 5,829 | 5,887 | 60 |
| Nicolas Zapata | 6,990 | 6,879 | 41 |
| Aryan Patel | 8,629 | 7,104 | 38 |
| Tanush Reddy Gade | 8,982 | 7,618 | 31 |
| Kevin Zhang | 5,177 | 7,626 | 31 |
| Ashwin Sankar | 7,728 | 7,781 | 30 |
| Harry Kim | 8,068 | 8,173 | 28 |
| Prabhav Agrawal | 7,962 | 8,265 | 27 |
| Richard Ha | 8,299 | 8,416 | 25 |
| Tanay Gupta | 8,337 | 8,475 | 24 |
| Pranav Guru | 4,017 | 8,763 | 22 |
| Rithvik Suram | 6,565 | 8,878 | 21 |
| Abhiram Chiduruppa | 8,845 | 8,955 | 20 |
| Jack Sherman | 8,961 | 9,081 | 19 |
| Ryan Huffman | 9,114 | 9,255 | 18 |
| Jeremy Thomas | 9,171 | 9,305 | 18 |
| Jonathan Lin | 1,096 | 9,512 | 17 |
| Anish Madireddy | N/A | 9,519 | 17 |
| Joshua Hilger | 9,512 | 9,681 | 16 |
| Gene Yun | 9,643 | 9,796 | 16 |
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