Cincy Reporter

Cincinnati tennis player Senuka Abeysinghe finished 9,164th in December in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 8,947th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 30 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
Nicholas Meyers	285	290	1,899
Jack Pollock	596	608	1,083
Rj Poffenberger	891	748	891
Arjun Rajagopala	888	816	822
Dhruv Kota	1,924	1,707	447
Maxwell Berghausen	1,689	1,758	434
Aditya Nayak	1,841	1,894	409
Jacob Eddingfield	1,946	2,144	355
Ethan Camp	2,445	2,484	300
Nikhil Shah	2,791	2,786	262
Gavin Isakov	3,077	2,933	244
Rapeegon Tangsantikul	2,977	3,017	235
John Corbett	2,495	3,030	234
Lucas Hansen	4,187	3,333	204
Eshaan Gandhi	3,106	3,359	201
Chase Homan	3,439	3,540	185
Michael Ryu	4,073	4,189	142
Ethan Blatt	4,453	4,603	121
Ethan Dragoo	4,503	4,650	120
Tristan Stanek	4,760	4,907	108
Eric Schaumloffel	5,125	5,279	95
Colin Schmidt	5,292	5,464	90
Conor Bergan	5,473	5,569	88
John Nogueira	5,446	5,627	86
Jackson Meyer	7,199	6,481	65
Aaron Altman	6,625	6,827	60
Christian Sprinkle	6,936	7,176	54
Beckett Enscoe	7,237	7,277	52
Kaan Ladd	7,183	7,423	49
Eli Kadakia	7,905	7,457	48
Neelan Gandhi	7,340	7,574	47
Paul Nienaber	7,439	7,686	46
Henry Brandt	7,628	7,897	43
Donnie Kaplan	8,034	8,316	38
Eric Vornhagen	7,927	8,727	33
Paxton Lesseuer	9,541	8,941	32
John Giles	N/A	9,050	30
Neel Nigam	8,917	9,108	30
Senuka Abeysinghe	8,947	9,164	30