Louisville City Wire

Louisville tennis player Landon Ecarma finished 709th in May in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started May ranked 674th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 778 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
Eli Stephenson	232	270	1,658
Xavier Ecarma	465	444	1,172
Ben Rueff	411	455	1,138
Tyler Bush	445	485	1,088
Joshua Meza	448	489	1,081
Christopher Kaufmann	626	670	812
Landon Ecarma	674	709	778
Alex Englund	1,339	1,314	432
Anderson Smith	1,257	1,340	420
Sammy Goldentul	1,417	1,515	363
Rowan McCollum	1,483	1,570	348
Brent Reynolds	1,640	1,716	304
Dane Boggess	1,823	1,902	273
Sahil Krishnani	2,848	2,967	149
Colby Berson	3,168	3,290	126
William Lewis	3,431	3,557	111
Max Roberts	3,832	3,952	91
Kaden MacDonald	4,021	4,129	86
Walker Bush	4,046	4,153	84
Timothy Wagoner	4,165	4,281	78
Aiden Vilo	4,421	4,556	70
Dustin Garrison	4,962	5,101	56
Parker Moyano	5,058	5,201	54
Owen Pulliam	5,679	5,333	50
Bennett Carothers	5,724	5,879	38
Jonathan Kepnes	7,341	7,011	25
Nikolas Jones	6,819	7,026	25
George Wagner	7,295	7,488	20
Marc Warren	7,301	7,500	20
Matthew Rice	9,005	7,893	16
Ben Beams	7,778	7,930	16
Matthew Chou	8,018	8,227	14
Cole Riley	8,098	8,299	14
Liam Patel	8,166	8,379	13
Mac Bowman	8,339	8,512	12
Oubry Gibson	8,571	8,803	11
Conner Brewer	N/A	8,981	10
Alex Schwartz	9,569	9,843	7
Sai Javvadi	9,645	9,918	6