Dupage Policy Journal

Naperville tennis player Kavin Sivapunniyam finished 5,682nd in November in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 5,510th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 63 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
Zachary Bobofchak	258	267	1,830
Mihir Arya	1,388	1,437	472
Tejas Sridhar	2,068	1,512	450
Akhil Matham	2,103	2,149	317
Ishan Suresh Kumar	2,331	2,303	288
Gautam Mani	2,710	2,485	263
Jayden Chiou	4,007	4,120	120
Brayden Cao	5,575	4,934	85
Kavin Sivapunniyam	5,510	5,682	63
Boris Sirotkin	6,057	5,932	60
Noah Eun	6,105	6,300	50
Ricky Kim	6,428	6,629	44
Lucas Qi	6,605	6,830	40
Ritvik Korrapati	8,007	7,339	33
Raghu Nandan Kannan	7,201	7,421	32
Ibrahim Faruqi	N/A	8,088	28
Max Buxbaum	7,846	8,103	28
Pramit Chand Suvarnakanti	7,891	8,140	27
Samir Sahdev	8,791	8,199	26
Gavin Kestenberg	8,315	8,594	24
Keshav Menon	8,678	8,948	20
Kendall Tai Nghiem	8,600	9,190	17
Stefan Egelja	9,145	9,325	16
Anthony Yang	9,060	9,365	16
Jai Gupta	7,878	9,757	16
Rishab Sridhar	N/A	9,944	14