Kern County Times

Los Angeles tennis player Ethan Kim finished 3,683rd in November in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 3,579th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 144 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 November
Ford McCollum	44	43	4,847
Nischal Spurling	111	117	3,153
Elliot Lifton	423	431	1,237
Oliver Lifton	626	637	896
Kieran Lin	913	940	652
Spencer Trattner	1,204	1,132	562
Jeremy Park	1,280	1,158	555
Shane Hines	1,334	1,316	506
Kiran Spurling	1,378	1,368	489
Nathan Haile	1,703	1,750	396
Blaze Hinton	1,758	1,806	386
Simon Lifton	1,907	1,879	369
Alex Bakhtiari	2,106	2,151	316
Zachary Figlin	2,341	2,390	274
Elliott Meth	2,573	2,539	255
Connor Yang	2,480	2,542	255
Zachary Zolla-Imerman	3,185	3,193	182
Ethan Kim	3,579	3,683	144
Xavier Leo Raymundo	4,417	3,852	132
Kensho Ford	4,028	4,145	119
Aiden Zadeh	4,179	4,294	110
Jackson Zinn	4,219	4,330	108
Jude Liebesman	4,540	4,393	106
Ian Lieberman	N/A	4,481	102
Waylon Lin	4,978	5,109	78
Noah Kaufman	5,241	5,403	70
Mayin Chaudhuri	7,448	5,887	60
Blake Markman	7,813	5,911	60
Evan Tsan	5,990	6,179	54
Ryan Zadeh	6,382	6,579	46
Ivan Niktin	6,543	6,735	42
Gabriel Leo Tapucar	6,608	6,812	40
Charlie Ford	7,342	7,359	33
Ziv Bard	N/A	7,396	32
Jackson Hoffmann	9,078	7,489	32
Whalen Farish	7,373	7,627	31
Donovan Thompkins	7,476	7,679	30
Tai Finestone	7,483	7,686	30
Drew Fisher	N/A	8,178	27
Jonathan Tefera	8,068	8,332	24
Magnus Christoffersen	8,222	8,499	24
Christian Studer	N/A	8,609	24
Nathan Tefera	8,827	9,111	18
Cole Moelleken	9,347	9,668	16
Philo Hornby-Simmons	9,554	9,876	15