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USTA junior rankings
National standings are 100% of your best 6 singles tournaments, plus 15% of your best 6 doubles or mixed doubles, plus singles bonus points. Standings use a rolling 12 months.
Updated October 13, 2026
Unofficial summary of USTA's published junior ranking rules. MainDraw is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by USTA or Universal Tennis. These questions are ones parents actually ask.
Same job, two ways
| Task | On the USTA site | In MainDraw |
|---|---|---|
| Who is in the field | Open the Players list and look up each name in the rankings and on UTR. | Read the open list and sort by National Ranking, UTR, or WTN. |
| Which results count | Rebuild the best 6 from the standings rules. | Tap the ranking. Up to six singles and six doubles appear, and the last row is the lowest that counts. |
| Next tournament | Set Sort & Filter again each time you search. | Save the filter setup and open that name later. |
| More than one child | Switch accounts, then find each schedule. | Accounts opens that child's Upcoming and Completed schedule. |
The questions
Ranking answers below are summarized from USTA's Help Center and the 2026 national junior rankings documents. Exact points for each round are in the 2026 points tables. A retirement, default, or walkover is covered in the national regulations, not in those tables.
USTA uses a Points Per Round system. A player's National Standings List total is 100% of the singles points from their best 6 singles tournaments, plus 15% of the points from their best 6 doubles or mixed doubles tournaments, plus singles bonus points. Standings use a rolling 12 months. Year-end Ranking Lists use the calendar year.
USTA: Junior National Standings List FAQs · 2026 National Junior Rankings (PDF).
Only the best 6 singles results and the best 6 doubles results in the window count. A player can have more tournaments on their record, and anything outside those best 6 is ignored. In MainDraw, tap a National Ranking number to see the singles and doubles that count, up to six of each. The last row of each group is the lowest score that counts, so you can see what the next result has to beat.
USTA: 2026 National Junior Rankings (PDF) · Junior National Standings List FAQs.
No. USTA attaches bonus points to the tournament where they were earned. If that tournament is not among the player's best six, neither its round points nor its bonus points count.
Points from an older division count fully toward a younger division, as long as the player has played a Junior Ranking Tournament in the younger division and the result is among the best 6. The other way, 20% of younger-division points count in the next older division. USTA also says the player must win a match for a played-up result to count.
On the USTA site, open the Players list and look up each name in the rankings and on UTR. MainDraw reads the Players list you have open, singles or doubles, and fills in National Ranking, UTR, and WTN in sortable columns, so you can sort the field by USTA ranking.
Many junior parents do, when they want to judge a draw. Some players prefer not to know. Doing it by hand means copying every name into UTR search. MainDraw runs that lookup with your own UTR sign-in and shows each player's UTR on the Players list. For 7 days after that, the Draw shows Singles UTR or Doubles UTR beside each saved player.
A USTA national ranking or standing comes from points earned by winning rounds at sanctioned junior tournaments over a set period. UTR, the Universal Tennis Rating, is a rating based on match scores against rated opponents, and it is run by Universal Tennis. Ranking is used for selection and seeding. Rating describes level. Many families track both. MainDraw shows them side by side and is not affiliated with either organization.
USTA publishes Seeding Lists that use the same criteria as the National Standings Lists. Only the best 6 singles results, or the best 6 doubles results, are used. Each tournament's seeding criteria are set out in the national regulations, including Table 2, so check the specific event.
The USTA website and TennisLink take a lot of clicks to find and register for a junior tournament. MainDraw opens USTA Find Tournaments with Sort & Filter ready. You can save that filter setup and open it again later, instead of rebuilding it every time.
In MainDraw, Accounts switches between family players, the way Switch Accounts works in the USTA Tennis app, and opens a child's Upcoming and Completed schedule. When you save a USTA page, MainDraw fills in a bookmark name from the tournament title and date, so saved events are easy to tell apart.
There is no official number. It depends on goals, health, school, and budget. Because only the best 6 singles results count, an extra tournament helps the ranking only when it is likely to beat the lowest result that currently counts. In MainDraw, the counting-results list is where you check that.
No. MainDraw is an unofficial, independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by USTA or Universal Tennis. It shows the USTA pages you open yourself and looks up UTR with your own UTR sign-in.
MainDraw is free to download. New installs include 30 days of free Look Up. After the trial, Look Up is $0.99 per month or $9.99 per year through Apple. It needs iOS 17 or later on iPhone and iPad. Try Demo uses a sample roster and works without logging in. Browsing, bookmarks, and Demo Mode stay available without a subscription.
App Store: MainDraw.
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