Dallas City Wire

Dallas tennis player Mathis Valenta finished 796th in November in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 734th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 843 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
Jack Yurich	588	595	1,093
Mathis Valenta	734	796	843
Mason Huddleston	1,087	1,092	634
Ike Davidson	1,208	1,125	617
Safin Stefanos	1,180	1,138	610
Trevor Gervis	1,314	1,164	596
Phoenix Davis	1,570	1,311	540
Tal Rogozinski	1,554	1,323	536
Amogh Naganand	1,525	1,555	472
Wesley Cotton	1,810	1,689	440
Luke Laczkowski	2,195	2,311	322
Carter Benson	1,644	2,525	293
Miguel Rooney	3,511	2,827	252
Oliver Muenker	3,193	3,271	204
Alex Lajous	3,336	3,531	180
Luke Ting	4,415	4,263	134
Nathaniel Hochman	4,863	4,749	112
Walter Straughn	4,762	4,835	108
Noah Whitman	5,196	4,848	107
Malcolm Moore	4,837	4,901	106
Will Stephens	5,084	5,161	96
Austin Childers	5,242	5,340	90
Hunter Shepherd	5,557	5,682	81
Noah Perhirin	4,132	5,842	76
Graham Akin	6,090	5,904	76
Cruz Beltran	6,073	6,241	68
Christopher Sims	4,745	6,977	54
Manuel Quijada	7,561	7,018	54
Tristan Ascenzo	6,959	7,109	52
Ian Wu	7,076	7,235	50
Reese Kolczun	5,978	7,561	46
Brady Lin	8,304	7,817	41
Zachary Garfield	8,069	8,265	36
Collier Muenker	8,206	8,392	35
William Snodgrass	8,382	8,564	32
Landon Peters	8,746	8,802	30
Hudson Chappell	8,532	9,271	29
Rikhil Katuri	9,353	9,535	26
Andy Xu	9,456	9,642	25
Grant Francis	9,595	9,682	24
Caleb Sammer	9,543	9,695	24
Ford Myers	9,623	9,827	24
Liam Tucker	9,796	9,985	24