Minneapolis Review

Minneapolis tennis player Leyton Griffith finished 9,036th in December in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 8,756th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 20 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
Andy Norman	254	246	1,938
Raiden Chen	295	293	1,706
Joshua Cook	437	408	1,306
Rishi Ranjith	516	446	1,205
Kamalesh Packiaraj	911	691	841
Sai Buddi	1,635	1,066	590
Anil Harshith Bharadwaj	1,337	1,383	488
Allan Wang	1,606	1,677	421
Ezra Strom	2,126	2,057	343
Sebastian Miguel Rodriguez Garcia	2,148	2,211	312
Jasper Strom	2,189	2,241	306
Sahil Boda	2,484	2,581	257
Joshua Latour	3,129	2,661	245
Cooper Held	2,752	2,863	222
Bharath Nair	2,810	2,924	214
Zachary Dresner	3,246	3,387	171
Zachary Zhu	3,326	3,473	164
Hari Akkina	3,387	3,534	159
Revan Pothacamury	3,871	4,022	127
Zahir Hassan	3,916	4,069	125
Karming Phoon	4,356	4,499	103
Zavdi Fisher	5,794	4,862	90
Artham Sinha	4,743	4,908	88
Ben Breitbach	4,959	5,140	80
Aarav Roy	5,169	5,378	74
Mithul Vivekanandan	5,708	5,910	60
Jasper Park	5,829	6,059	60
Ted Strasburg	5,936	6,155	56
Kenny Perry	6,104	6,331	53
Graham Everett	N/A	6,635	46
Hashim Chaudhri	6,544	6,806	44
Grayson Dunigan	6,759	7,032	40
Shoaib Shaik	7,809	7,885	30
Chase Peterson	N/A	8,057	30
Leyton Griffith	8,756	9,036	20
Kristopher Sinkin	9,071	9,366	17
Gus Campbell	9,493	9,788	16
Jeffrey Chen	9,494	9,837	16
Tristan Ehn	9,611	9,912	16