Oakland City Wire

Los Angeles tennis player Brennan Bartman finished 163rd in May in the junior Boys’ 12 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started May ranked 225th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 2,094 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 May
Elliot Lifton	118	120	2,636
Brennan Bartman	225	163	2,094
Kiran Spurling	444	342	1,089
Alex Bakhtiari	397	395	942
Simon Lifton	547	525	734
Blaze Hinton	1,110	841	483
Aiden Zadeh	1,798	1,615	208
Connor Yang	2,561	1,676	192
Ivan Niktin	2,393	1,936	150
Ethan Kim	3,003	2,286	104
Evan Tsan	2,648	2,353	96
Whalen Farish	3,122	2,355	96
Kensho Ford	2,419	2,477	88
Ryan Zadeh	2,562	2,623	72
Xavier Leo Raymundo	2,568	2,632	72
Zachary Figlin	2,860	2,734	64
Gabriel Bergemann	3,914	3,026	48
Charlie Ford	4,657	3,037	48
Christian Studer	3,983	4,048	16
Daniel Henderson	4,697	4,387	8
Waylon Lin	4,428	4,577	8