North Indy News

Carmel tennis player Rocky Li finished 8,298th in December in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 4,883rd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 26 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 December
Ajay Mahenthiran	217	226	2,337
Broc Fletcher	329	340	1,767
Eli Mercer	464	420	1,520
Dylan Long	631	708	926
Srisanth Malpeddi	885	901	742
Jack Jentz	1,030	1,055	625
John Tiplick	1,674	1,735	365
Jonathan Yang	1,783	1,982	312
Nishesh Basavareddy	1,156	2,176	279
Jones McNamar	2,563	2,612	219
Aarit Musilannagari	3,235	3,205	163
Sean Loub	4,227	4,265	105
Eli Dieveney	4,311	4,383	100
Braedon McIntyre	4,040	4,413	99
Andrew Willman	4,016	5,282	71
David Liu	6,584	5,636	62
Sarvy Shri	5,503	5,688	61
Evan Witter	5,772	5,789	60
Nick Stitle	5,986	6,041	56
Sahas Mallela	6,038	6,086	55
Charlie Held	6,297	6,227	53
Syed Hasan	6,455	6,366	50
Krishay Arora	8,634	6,539	47
Alexander Walker	6,632	6,737	43
Jacob Follman	6,647	6,753	43
Richard Geng	6,655	6,762	43
Oliver Seifert	6,662	6,766	43
Venkata Sanjith Boddu	9,738	6,895	41
Akshay Guttikonda	6,855	6,952	39
Andy Wang	8,003	7,338	35
Tanay Acharya	7,755	7,745	30
Rocky Li	4,883	8,298	26
Colin McPeek	8,576	8,674	23
Michael Fryburg	8,730	8,830	21
Evan Reynolds	9,768	8,910	21
Leo Shaw	9,216	9,360	18
Grant Enderle	9,484	9,585	16
Shri Atluri	N/A	9,918	15
Timothy Meadows	9,780	9,934	15