Chicago City Wire

There are 34 junior tennis players from Chicago ranked in the Boys’ 16 category in the week ending Nov. 20 by the United States Tennis Association.

There were 34 junior tennis players who ranked in Boys' 16 bracket the previous week.

Piotr Andrzejewski is the top ranked boy in the category with 5,751 points.

Players earn points by winning matches in tournaments, with bonus points awarded based on the standing of their opponent.

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.

Rank	Name	Bonus Points
28	Piotr Andrzejewski	1,320
471	Garvin Murray	75
1,145	Christopher Ackerman	160
1,194	Christopher Morris	102
1,242	Noah Pendo	0
1,594	Joah Dunwoody	86
1,766	Rowan Ing	0
1,814	Dashiell Smith	0
2,538	Marko Nikolic	0
2,806	Marko McRae	5
2,975	Zuhair Alsikafi	0
3,329	Kaden Brown	0
3,713	Porter Baginski	0
3,903	Kiyan Alsikafi	0
4,233	Chetan Cherukuri	0
4,720	Nhylan Westmoreland	2
4,721	Feriyadi Hasnovi	0
5,265	Luke Thomann	0
5,426	Luca Sevim	0
5,640	Indrit Metarapi	0
5,780	Mark Tismensky	0
6,664	Sohail Sajdeh	0
6,991	Nick Rubens	0
7,270	Jake Goldstein	0
7,271	Hans Baker	0
7,818	Lakshman Sinha	0
8,513	Raghuvir Sriram	0
8,561		0
8,704	Jakob Kohn	0
9,251	Kiran Mullangi	0
9,398	Varun Viges	0
9,407	Arjun Sawardekar	0
9,619	Ryan Lee	0
9,625	Jay Manadan	0