South Palm Beach Today

Boca Raton tennis player Nikita Deev is ranked 423rd in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association in the week ending May 29.

They had 1,218 total points, split between 861 single points and 1,173 double points. USTA rankings are determined by adding 100 percent of singles points and 15 percent of doubles points plus any bonus points earned.

They were ranked 394th the week before.

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.

Standings are released weekly.

Name	Total Points	Single Points	Doubles Points
Daniel Green	2,342	1,979	315
Ellis Short	1,558	1,332	1,434
Tasmay Shah	1,384	1,079	N/A
Nikita Deev	1,218	861	1,173
Jacob Lowen	1,160	810	N/A
Daniel Cowan Jr.	762	656	576
Valentin Vasquez	637	519	N/A
Peter Tracy	574	484	N/A
Lucca Pignaton	442	422	N/A
Yair Gritzman	401	390	N/A
Pranav Ikkurthy	395	350	N/A
Alexander Frantzis	369	339	36
Jacob Hartman	276	276	N/A
Francisco Tomas Geschwind	185	162	N/A
Carter McKinnon	182	182	N/A
Murray Litman	174	174	N/A
Victor Imanishi	171	166	N/A
Fernando Piestun	159	159	N/A
Ojas Agarwal	150	150	N/A
Andrew Unruh	128	128	N/A
Codrin Miller	103	103	N/A
Brandon Reznik	90	90	N/A
Sergej Hans	90	90	N/A
Andrew Reznik	89	89	N/A
Tristan Ryerson	87	87	N/A
Nicholas Reeves	82	77	N/A
Jadon Price	80	80	N/A
Denys Forgaci	78	78	N/A
Arkadiy Balyberdin	78	78	N/A
Egor Edel	76	76	N/A
Yanni Anagnostopoulos	60	60	N/A
Lukas Pelton	60	60	N/A
Christian Yeagley	60	60	N/A
Lucca Acioly	54	54	N/A
Rafael Correa	54	54	N/A
Kartick Gusain	53	53	N/A
Adam Bagon	48	48	N/A
Quinn Morillo	45	36	N/A
Dante Massetta	41	41	N/A
Kristofer Brkic	36	36	N/A
Rafael Ferreira	34	34	N/A
Tyler McKinnon	32	32	N/A
Efe Demirci	29	29	N/A
Matias Moran	28	28	N/A
Luc Metz	28	28	N/A
Ryan Rao	24	24	N/A
Zuhayr Alam-Ahmed	23	23	N/A
Miles Fix	19	19	N/A
Brayden Amey	14	14	N/A
Lucca Carvalho	14	14	N/A
Ryder Gang	12	12	N/A
Noah Chapman	11	11	N/A
Benjamin Volheim	10	10	3
Dylan Rouche	8	8	N/A
Ashwin Chawla	8	8	N/A
Alex Garcia	8	8	N/A