North Indy News

Carmel tennis player Alexander Walker finished 6,999th in February in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 6,813th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 43 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 February
Broc Fletcher	263	206	2,590
Ajay Mahenthiran	225	270	2,171
Eli Mercer	439	445	1,517
Dylan Long	710	536	1,278
Jack Jentz	1,060	1,096	634
Srisanth Malpeddi	1,158	1,370	506
John Tiplick	1,845	1,704	397
Jonathan Yang	2,109	2,089	310
Nishesh Basavareddy	2,225	2,284	279
Braedon McIntyre	2,835	2,929	199
Alexander Antonopoulos	3,922	3,049	187
Aarit Musilannagari	3,099	3,195	175
Eli Dieveney	3,844	3,515	151
Sean Loub	3,547	3,518	151
Andrew Willman	4,827	4,964	89
Rocky Li	5,026	5,168	82
Akshay Guttikonda	5,117	5,269	78
Dylan Ball	5,170	5,344	76
Sahas Mallela	6,202	5,417	75
Max Fuller	5,577	5,742	66
Krishay Arora	5,604	5,761	66
Syed Hasan	5,690	5,867	64
David Liu	5,743	5,914	62
Shri Atluri	5,753	5,923	62
Sarvy Shri	5,799	5,960	61
Evan Witter	5,916	6,004	60
Alec Anderson-Conlon	5,898	6,095	60
Charlie Held	6,049	6,197	59
Oliver Seifert	6,125	6,281	57
Nick Stitle	6,153	6,311	56
Andy Wang	6,292	6,456	54
Tony Tancredi	6,598	6,785	47
Alexander Walker	6,813	6,999	43
Jacob Follman	6,832	7,016	43
Richard Geng	6,846	7,027	43
Venkata Sanjith Boddu	6,991	7,181	41
Tanay Acharya	7,845	8,067	30
Evan Reynolds	8,224	8,457	29
Colin McPeek	8,801	9,049	23
Michael Fryburg	8,962	9,234	21
Leo Shaw	9,518	9,802	18