West Wake News

Cary tennis player Paul Wang finished 487th in May in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started May ranked 461st.

By the end of the month they’d earned 1,143 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 May
Rahul Sachdev	81	71	3,724
Jimin Jung	82	96	3,316
Ian Mayew	272	134	2,762
Shiv Singh	389	332	1,567
Paul Wang	461	487	1,143
Trevor Gray	1,330	1,143	544
Sahil Arora	1,399	1,452	444
Samuel Lee	1,639	1,688	382
Muyang Yi	3,827	1,937	330
Alex Liu	2,300	2,348	261
Max Gao	2,564	2,620	224
Aarav Kumar	2,957	3,026	180
Ashish Nadkarni	3,837	3,905	116
Joshua Bang	4,935	4,205	100
Ethan Wan	4,204	4,261	97
Wesley Worobel	4,317	4,379	92
Ethan Garcia	4,961	4,753	79
Alfred Ye	4,808	4,900	74
Agastya Maheshwari	6,101	5,009	71
Brandon Bao	4,999	5,027	70
Stephen Gervase	6,280	5,227	64
Krishna Mariwalla	7,434	5,343	61
Adyan Sabir	5,525	5,634	56
Saachin Arora	5,834	5,932	49
Joseph Lee	5,866	5,963	48
Anagh Sivadasan	N/A	6,912	32
Samvit Tiwari	N/A	6,918	32
Vivek Indlamuri	N/A	7,322	30
Neel Varadan	7,271	7,448	30
Ashrith Desu	N/A	7,501	29
Aidan Xu	7,374	7,557	28
Madeshan Muruganandam	7,576	7,766	25
Ethan He	N/A	7,824	24
Kahven Singh	8,218	8,461	18
Aarin Kumar	9,030	8,732	17
Ryan Corcoran	8,511	8,746	16
Rithwik Mishra	N/A	8,825	16
Dhruv Mulik	8,827	9,055	16
Arnav Varanasi	9,826	9,143	15