San Jose Standard

San Jose tennis player Luke Choo finished 6,064th in February in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 6,443rd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 81 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 February
Krish Arora	3,747	21	7,008
Tej Patil	196	207	2,535
Ethan Chung	228	234	2,352
Anish Lolabattu	331	356	1,683
Magnus Weng	519	548	1,233
Eshaan Kaipa	1,319	1,335	573
David Jin	5,357	1,369	564
Srikar Govindaraju	1,381	1,441	540
Paras Painuly	1,599	1,574	498
Shaan Kohli	1,624	1,722	461
Aayush Khadpe	1,849	1,950	411
Yinan Zhou	1,914	2,026	398
Evan Modak	2,089	2,206	362
Avigyat Painuly	2,333	2,464	323
Krish Dewan	2,960	2,582	304
Jason Wang	N/A	2,668	294
Steven Liu	3,626	3,053	244
Wanze Jin	4,104	3,828	175
Alexander Sanford	3,987	4,195	151
Jeffrey Zhang	3,591	4,234	150
Matthew Phan	5,427	4,861	120
Noah Nguyen	4,846	5,138	110
Keigo Kamata	5,536	5,423	100
Eddie Zhang	5,156	5,440	99
Evan Zhang	5,270	5,567	95
Vihaan Reddy	5,328	5,628	92
Benjamin Jin	5,754	5,801	89
Edward Ke	5,610	5,921	85
Luke Choo	6,443	6,064	81
Alan Zhang	6,900	6,773	65
Taichi Kimura	6,611	6,954	62
Aarav Sontakke	6,979	7,352	56
Andre Popa	7,039	7,365	56
Benjamin Truong	6,844	7,591	53
Pranav Tallapaka	7,956	8,371	41
Andre Nguyen	N/A	8,491	40
Vihaan Chakravarthy	8,150	8,506	40
Melvin Najarian	8,145	8,577	39
Charlie Ha	9,333	8,781	38
Keito Ishida	9,963	8,831	37
Vihaan Iyer	8,626	9,091	34
Jotaro Takei	9,382	9,139	33
Evan Butler	N/A	9,689	30