North Indy News

Carmel tennis player Vishal Shankar finished 5,130th in November in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 5,198th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 97 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
Dylan Long	40	39	5,102
Eli Dieveney	437	444	1,353
Jonathan Yang	985	996	688
Colin McPeek	1,018	1,026	668
Braedon McIntyre	1,225	1,335	533
Aarit Musilannagari	1,594	1,625	456
Alexander Walker	1,713	1,740	429
Rocky Li	2,364	2,747	261
Charlie Held	2,715	2,766	258
Syed Hasan	4,141	2,803	254
David Liu	2,956	3,014	231
Richard Geng	3,959	3,028	230
Tony Tancredi	3,017	3,089	224
Sean Loub	3,353	3,415	190
Andrew Willman	3,395	3,453	187
Oliver Seifert	3,390	3,504	182
Nick Stitle	3,836	3,912	152
Sahas Mallela	3,844	3,922	152
Akshay Guttikonda	5,786	4,255	134
Venkata Sanjith Boddu	4,219	4,395	127
Krishay Arora	4,218	4,591	119
Vishal Shankar	5,198	5,130	97
Leo Shaw	5,159	5,246	92
Kothe Birge	5,387	5,478	86
Alejandro Torres	5,980	6,132	69
Vinay Sai Meda	5,017	6,172	68
Kharan Devanaboina	7,442	6,312	66
Charlie Phillips	6,172	6,496	61
Hayden Kress	6,808	6,978	54
Michael Fryburg	6,995	7,146	51
Grant Mu	7,078	7,239	49
Shri Atluri	7,275	7,448	46
Rohan Bhosale	7,329	7,497	46
Miller Dobson	8,263	7,703	43
Elias Lin	8,339	7,838	41
Evan Reynolds	7,670	7,862	40
Timothy Meadows	7,706	7,897	40
Shawn Feng	9,800	8,528	33
Andrew Kim	9,069	8,531	33
Nikhil Gupta	9,363	9,305	29
Ian Altenhof	9,318	9,505	26