Minneapolis tennis player Ben Breitbach finished 7,923rd in December in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.
They started December ranked 7,652nd.
By the end of the month they’d earned 42 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’ 16 rankings in December
| Name | Starting Rank | Ending Rank | Total Points at end of December |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kai Chen | 203 | 203 | 2,483 |
| Rishi Ranjith | 771 | 736 | 904 |
| Samuel Leslie | 815 | 833 | 810 |
| Bode Campbell | 823 | 843 | 807 |
| Abhinav Maneesh | 848 | 866 | 786 |
| Andy Norman | 1,047 | 947 | 725 |
| Evan Fraser | 1,206 | 1,010 | 684 |
| Gavin Kelleher | 1,870 | 1,606 | 468 |
| Humza Chaudhri | 2,019 | 1,834 | 420 |
| Kamalesh Packiaraj | 2,139 | 2,004 | 384 |
| Raiden Chen | 2,073 | 2,070 | 369 |
| Joshua Cook | 2,488 | 2,320 | 325 |
| Sai Buddi | 2,641 | 2,456 | 303 |
| Isaac Lower | 2,668 | 2,619 | 282 |
| Jasper Strom | 2,876 | 2,944 | 243 |
| Lou Smith | 2,964 | 3,004 | 237 |
| Braden Fitzgerald | 4,407 | 3,780 | 167 |
| Tanay Panguluri | 4,763 | 4,212 | 140 |
| Sean Oslund | 4,480 | 4,628 | 120 |
| Dhiren Akkina | 4,533 | 4,679 | 119 |
| Anil Harshith Bharadwaj | 5,436 | 5,616 | 86 |
| Allan Wang | 5,543 | 5,732 | 84 |
| Malhaar Jain | 6,280 | 6,357 | 68 |
| Zahir Hassan | 6,381 | 6,572 | 62 |
| Ryder Held | 6,408 | 6,601 | 62 |
| Sebastian Miguel Rodriguez Garcia | 6,946 | 7,181 | 54 |
| Ezra Strom | 7,244 | 7,482 | 48 |
| Vhetrri Vijay Prabhakar | 7,379 | 7,626 | 46 |
| Cooper Held | 7,585 | 7,859 | 44 |
| Bharath Nair | 7,622 | 7,891 | 43 |
| Ben Breitbach | 7,652 | 7,923 | 42 |
| Revan Pothacamury | 9,517 | 7,995 | 41 |
| Charles Graff | 9,823 | 8,048 | 40 |
| Hari Akkina | 8,553 | 8,868 | 32 |
| Keshav Singh | 8,970 | 9,055 | 30 |
| Zachary Dresner | 9,148 | 9,454 | 30 |
| Karming Phoon | 9,412 | 9,487 | 29 |
| Zachary Zhu | 9,440 | 9,749 | 26 |
| Louis Bastian | 9,600 | 9,951 | 24 |
