Chicago City Wire

Chicago tennis player Arjun Sawardekar finished 3,623rd in November in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 3,525th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 147 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 November
Garvin Murray	92	83	3,734
Joah Dunwoody	247	176	2,320
Marko McRae	518	526	1,049
Luca Sevim	622	631	901
Dashiell Smith	1,013	914	667
Kiyan Alsikafi	1,130	1,088	578
Nhylan Westmoreland	1,419	1,464	463
Luke Thomann	1,494	1,473	460
Mark Tismensky	2,289	1,795	388
Raghuvir Sriram	2,023	1,895	365
Feriyadi Hasnovi	1,940	1,987	348
Hans Baker	2,550	2,611	245
Lakshman Sinha	4,025	2,922	209
Jakob Kohn	3,021	3,120	189
Thomas Cilella	3,163	3,130	188
Kiran Mullangi	3,587	3,553	151
Arjun Sawardekar	3,525	3,623	147
Varun Viges	3,549	3,648	145
Ryan Lee	3,890	3,994	124
Jay Manadan	3,934	4,046	122
Benjamin Cuervo	5,817	4,178	117
Devan Khorana	4,249	4,355	107
Beck Riley	4,355	4,473	102
Eli Goodman	5,787	5,255	74
Mateo Velasco	5,297	5,464	68
Paras Cherukuri	5,899	6,085	55
Koushik Sengupta	6,125	6,318	50
Patrick Billings	6,355	6,550	46
Declan Smith	N/A	6,784	40
Alexander Lapins	6,735	6,945	39
Shaan Khorana	7,344	7,147	36
James Rolls	7,097	7,307	34
Noah Phocas	8,578	7,514	32
Rai Trujillo	7,386	7,774	30
Arjun Sawhney	7,710	7,963	30
Leonardo Celani	7,882	8,133	27
Gian Mullangi	8,858	8,844	21
Teddy McGuire	8,580	8,866	20
Nikolas Gulyayev	8,933	9,230	17
Luke Mulholland	9,053	9,573	16
Will Unetich	9,308	9,650	16
Diart Metarapi	9,342	9,661	16