Houston Republic

Houston tennis player Richard Liang finished 4,518th in November in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 4,488th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 92 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
Ritesh Patil	59	58	4,789
Kabeer Kapasi	68	67	4,452
Alex Koong	99	97	3,658
Deacon Thomas	118	122	3,318
Noey Do	680	674	956
Ethan Flores	709	701	907
Steven Scholz	1,101	733	874
Jason Li	1,008	1,013	633
John Butler	1,038	1,140	564
Vincent Risoldi	1,395	1,190	542
Ryan Wood	2,038	1,261	513
Alex Psifidis	1,366	1,368	473
Devin Mendez	1,260	1,395	463
Alex Thomas	1,402	1,425	453
Mircea Tatulescu	1,791	1,685	373
Sean Fang	1,739	1,734	361
Andrew Reiman	1,776	1,766	353
Rowan Matorin	1,803	1,788	347
Timothy Nguyen	1,889	1,868	330
Raja Pandya	2,340	1,915	318
Mario Urdaneta	1,973	1,951	310
Calis Nguyen	2,043	2,018	300
Jefferson Page	1,911	2,054	295
Balaji Srikrishna	2,142	2,121	282
Liam Coffey	2,722	2,325	246
Christopher Langford	2,401	2,349	243
Thomas Raney	2,883	2,422	234
Eric Kuo	1,782	2,580	215
Kieran Coffey	2,575	2,662	207
Romain Roussel	2,911	2,894	182
Tyton Ballew	3,141	3,131	163
Nikhil Bhasin	4,467	3,189	159
Richard Xu	3,344	3,326	150
Joseph Zhang	3,354	3,333	150
Sebastian Benchluch	4,126	3,365	148
Wilson Salazar Jr.	3,587	3,563	135
Roberto Vazquez	3,702	3,744	125
Reed Hightower	3,775	3,749	124
Alejandro Velasco	3,646	3,834	120
Octavio Hinojosa	3,868	3,843	120
Marcus Azuaje	3,899	3,897	118
James McKenzie	3,988	3,996	113
Holden Jackson	4,132	4,157	106
Pierce Markowitz	4,208	4,223	104
David Garcia	4,473	4,498	93
Richard Liang	4,488	4,518	92
Abraham Ferrara	4,599	4,625	90
Henry Zhao	4,618	4,634	90
Matthew Jeong	4,836	4,675	89
Pooya Tork	4,811	4,829	84
Jeffrey Chuang	3,812	4,854	83
Arthur Galvan Lll	4,878	4,898	81
Luke Jiang	4,507	4,934	80
Reed Telle	4,953	4,970	78
Gustavo Neumann	4,991	5,009	77
Qasym Dar	6,571	5,112	74
Mehran Sarker	4,804	5,224	71
Andrew Adler	5,303	5,305	69
Isaac Harris	5,287	5,377	67
Keval Shah	5,450	5,451	65
Gary Sun	5,925	5,924	59
Eric Yan	6,027	6,016	56
Ricardo Moolchan	6,549	6,121	54
Dylan Varughese	6,306	6,313	49
Asher Parker	6,319	6,323	49
Nicolas Boza	6,396	6,403	48
Noah Davis	6,436	6,447	47
Rohan Patel	6,481	6,632	43
Colton Matthews	6,758	6,763	41
Erick Garcia	6,772	6,774	41
Peter Saudale	6,857	6,865	39
Evan Nguyen	5,607	6,868	39
Arnav Prashar	7,068	7,078	37
Matthew Kelly	9,193	7,152	36
Carlos Rincon	6,836	7,310	34
Alexander Elliott	7,311	7,324	33
Agassi Mireles	5,837	7,556	30
Michael Elder	7,686	7,703	30
Anthony Gonzalez	6,804	7,975	29
Nicholas Montes	8,057	8,076	28
Alex Aronson	8,107	8,121	27
Dylan Schwartz	9,973	8,222	26
Daniel Ma	8,226	8,232	26
Dylan Wilhelm	8,343	8,346	24
Peter Jackson	7,909	8,473	24
Thanh-Tri Nguyen	8,641	8,640	23
Dhruv Balivada	7,228	8,642	23
Michael Barton	8,694	8,683	22
Rowland Su	8,930	8,921	20
Clement Durye	8,459	9,066	18
Rokko Martinez	9,063	9,099	18
Innes Macaulay	9,092	9,118	18
Ayden Mohamed	9,262	9,263	18
Jack Lovoi	9,266	9,275	18
Ford Youngdahl	9,364	9,371	17
Zadrian Smith	N/A	9,378	17
Turner Edwards	N/A	9,609	16
Rodrigo Chon Him	9,708	9,715	15
Taylor Collins	9,791	9,806	15
Mathurin Lavaux	9,848	9,870	14
Matthew Johnston	9,883	9,900	14
Ryan Peyton	8,204	9,945	14