Kern County Times

Los Angeles tennis player Chase Cheng finished 6,444th in February in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 6,094th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 72 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
Cassius Chinlund	76	59	5,038
Ford McCollum	387	435	1,477
Nischal Spurling	504	513	1,291
Michael Cheng	587	622	1,120
Julian Alamares	1,069	1,148	645
Oliver Lifton	1,448	1,416	547
Grant Fisher	1,877	1,984	404
Nathan Haile	2,407	2,303	346
Dane Harrington	2,218	2,335	341
Brandon Lustgarten	2,831	2,907	263
Shane Hines	3,123	3,288	220
Elliot Lifton	3,132	3,293	219
Ethan Kim	4,624	3,416	208
Elliott Meth	3,357	3,527	199
Alexander Nickoll	3,458	3,647	189
Jeremy Park	3,548	3,708	184
Jackson Zinn	5,833	3,856	173
Kieran Lin	3,825	4,033	162
Isaac Parra	3,834	4,043	161
Ian Lieberman	4,288	4,187	152
Miles Whitehead	4,103	4,253	150
Zachary Zolla-Imerman	4,159	4,383	142
Caleb Tsai	4,794	5,078	112
Gabriel Welch	6,356	5,229	106
Jacob Glazer	5,337	5,636	92
Zachary Figlin	5,712	6,028	83
Chase Cheng	6,094	6,444	72
Sean Coffey	6,181	6,542	70
Connor Yang	7,015	6,806	65
Jackson Hoffmann	6,576	6,881	63
Jonah Schweitzer	6,904	7,267	57
Jody Croasdaile	7,232	7,600	52
Sergey Barseghyan	8,046	7,732	50
Blaze Hinton	7,964	8,377	41
Xavier Leo Raymundo	8,176	8,536	40
Jake Salkinder	N/A	8,902	36
Maximilian Jannone Kim	8,755	9,203	32
Georgie Barr	8,781	9,259	32
Jonathan Tefera	N/A	9,363	32
Alex Bakhtiari	9,297	9,793	30