SW Houston News

Katy tennis player Santiago Muhala finished 4,535th in November in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 4,509th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 91 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
Arjun Kumar	617	555	1,140
Brian Ho	586	584	1,095
Charlie Kuchler	616	615	1,045
Cristopher Cequea	812	820	790
Mihir Amte	907	861	758
Jonathan Lin	1,084	1,080	593
Qidao Lian	985	1,113	576
Paul Wang	1,601	1,764	353
Francesco Cordova	1,688	1,936	314
Patrick Chen	2,201	2,171	273
Yong Seok Andrew Jang	2,767	2,743	199
Jiawei Zhang	2,834	2,811	191
Hyun Seok Jang	2,953	2,939	180
Allan Xu	5,421	3,178	160
Egor Morozov	3,892	3,485	139
Vincent Carter	3,519	3,494	139
Daniel Castillo	3,836	3,823	120
Santiago Muhala	4,509	4,535	91
Anantha Narayanan	5,208	5,209	71
Gavin Gibson	4,007	5,533	63
Henry Galloway	5,568	5,575	63
Daniel Garza	5,724	5,682	60
Dhruv Amlani	6,000	5,990	56
William Stavinoha	6,099	6,096	54
Austin Knickerbocker	6,887	6,893	39
Ethan Everk	N/A	7,097	36
Rubin Tian	7,912	7,176	36
Yuta Hagihara	9,662	7,923	30
Charlie Campbell-Watt	8,115	8,129	27
Rodolfo Vela Marino	8,168	8,184	26
Ryan Shavandi	8,296	8,299	25
Caleb Bryan	8,311	8,314	25
Rishi Khot	7,415	8,674	22
Tyler Zou	7,447	8,795	21
Abhijay Setlur	7,938	8,915	20
Xiuning Yu	9,023	9,010	19
Justin Warwick	9,548	9,502	16
Rolando Villarreal III	9,274	9,811	15
Michael Zhao	9,886	9,895	14
Dominic Tumibay	9,965	9,985	14