North Indy News

Carmel tennis player Ian Altenhof finished 9,720th in December in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 9,414th.

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
Dylan Long	45	58	4,626
Eli Dieveney	415	424	1,398
Colin McPeek	1,006	945	725
Jonathan Yang	940	962	716
Aarit Musilannagari	1,603	1,516	486
Braedon McIntyre	1,311	1,639	462
Alexander Walker	1,668	1,741	438
David Liu	2,989	2,417	308
Charlie Held	2,745	2,773	264
Andy Wang	2,795	2,802	259
Tony Tancredi	2,754	2,823	257
Syed Hasan	2,778	2,842	254
Venkata Sanjith Boddu	4,342	2,985	240
Krishay Arora	4,538	3,021	234
Richard Geng	3,004	3,104	227
Rocky Li	2,197	3,368	200
Sean Loub	3,387	3,390	198
Oliver Seifert	3,473	3,738	170
Nick Stitle	3,883	3,983	152
Sahas Mallela	3,892	3,989	152
Akshay Guttikonda	4,214	4,334	134
Kharan Devanaboina	6,250	4,458	128
Vishal Shankar	5,080	5,241	97
Leo Shaw	5,198	5,357	92
Shri Atluri	7,384	5,996	76
Alejandro Torres	6,072	6,272	69
Vinay Sai Meda	6,110	6,306	68
Evan Reynolds	7,790	6,370	68
Charlie Phillips	6,430	6,630	61
Hayden Kress	6,910	7,134	54
Michael Fryburg	7,082	7,321	51
Grant Mu	7,179	7,416	49
Rohan Bhosale	7,430	7,708	46
Timothy Meadows	7,827	8,112	40
Elias Lin	7,767	8,467	37
Miller Dobson	7,635	8,619	35
Siddharth Pathuri	N/A	8,685	34
Andrew Kim	8,330	8,703	34
Shawn Feng	8,458	8,763	33
Nikhil Gupta	9,217	9,522	29
David Cacchillo	9,464	9,601	28
Ethan Hoagland	N/A	9,719	26
Ian Altenhof	9,414	9,720	26