Cobb Reporter

Marietta tennis player Kyle Richardson finished 9,263rd in December in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 8,902nd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 30 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
James Weber	241	244	2,183
Stephen Zhu	645	668	1,000
Rajat Shirur	994	1,021	675
Jaiden Dodia	1,205	1,181	599
Bailey Raymond	2,048	2,494	299
Kayden Colombo	2,676	2,737	268
Porter Hornigold	2,847	2,865	252
Declan Boxa	3,095	3,160	220
Aashray Arun	2,749	3,179	219
Rishab Thiyagarajan	3,558	3,311	206
Nithil Viswanathan	3,253	3,342	203
Arish Damani	1,340	3,625	180
Mickey Pancich	3,624	3,830	163
Harshid Balachandar	3,782	3,896	160
Sharvil Kulkarni	3,146	3,961	155
Chris Zhou	4,329	4,351	133
Connor Shen	4,414	4,493	126
Ethan Lo	4,807	4,949	107
Ethan Swatski	3,371	5,120	101
Nihal Viswanathan	5,956	6,155	72
Griffin Searles	6,046	6,246	70
Pratt Yerger	6,358	6,550	63
Shiv Kinnarkar	6,983	7,354	51
Jackson Taylor	7,141	7,381	50
David Fu	7,383	7,620	46
Cole Nabinger	7,507	7,776	46
Anshul Panchal	7,598	7,870	43
Owen Collins	7,887	8,167	40
Mehul Goel	N/A	8,268	38
Baker Watson	8,039	8,331	38
Bryce Phan	8,056	8,380	38
Blake Jarrett	8,138	8,436	37
Avid Khan	9,097	8,647	34
Lucas Liu	9,238	8,767	33
Jake Mong	8,705	9,022	30
Oscar Chen	9,014	9,067	30
Peyton White	N/A	9,198	30
Kyle Richardson	8,902	9,263	30
Teo Johnson	8,828	9,337	30