West Wake News

Cary tennis player Kaushik Tatiraju finished 9,719th in December in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association.

By the end of the month they’d earned 16 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
Rohan Sachdev	22	21	6,772
Will Mayew	62	64	4,676
Rahul Sachdev	219	224	2,347
Aditya S. Narayanan	264	273	2,070
Ryan Xiao	302	313	1,876
Lukas Steffen	319	345	1,743
Spencer Matz	571	581	1,117
Ian Mayew	691	709	924
Jimin Jung	698	761	866
Brannen Coe	840	869	767
Shiv Singh	907	913	733
Naresh Bharathy	1,133	1,149	573
Trevor Gray	1,293	1,316	503
Romin Parikh	1,472	1,494	441
Paul Wang	1,608	1,632	395
Kreday Chandok	1,969	2,001	309
Siddharth Patil	1,717	2,086	294
Muyang Yi	2,459	2,507	232
Max Gao	3,974	2,892	187
Sahil Arora	3,114	3,001	179
Samuel Lee	3,076	3,119	170
Lucas Artigas	3,520	3,588	138
Alex Liu	3,588	3,652	134
Kahven Singh	4,484	4,570	93
Brij Bhatt	4,780	4,855	85
Vivek Indlamuri	5,104	5,153	75
Vladimir Hoff	5,210	5,263	72
Brodey Lane	5,296	5,353	69
Ethan Wan	6,005	5,669	62
Agastya Maheshwari	9,970	6,238	52
Joshua Bang	6,215	6,287	51
Aarav Kumar	6,259	6,330	50
Adyan Sabir	8,176	6,715	44
Alfred Ye	6,703	6,810	42
Krishna Mariwalla	8,232	8,347	26
Stephen Gervase	N/A	8,491	24
Aidan Xu	N/A	8,542	24
Joseph Lee	8,797	8,904	21
Alexander Pondiscio	8,803	8,911	21
Aarin Kumar	N/A	9,100	19
Kaushik Tatiraju	N/A	9,719	16
Pranav Aditya Sadhu	N/A	9,802	16
Ashrith Desu	9,686	9,839	16