Chicago City Wire

Chicago tennis player Jake Lee finished 6,656th in February in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 5,643rd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 54 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
Joah Dunwoody	186	206	2,320
Marko McRae	314	344	1,583
Luca Sevim	394	428	1,342
Dashiell Smith	N/A	738	840
Kiyan Alsikafi	936	1,019	648
Nhylan Westmoreland	1,139	1,233	554
Mark Tismensky	1,156	1,259	547
Raghuvir Sriram	1,562	1,622	450
Feriyadi Hasnovi	1,649	1,767	419
Thomas Cilella	1,943	2,077	355
Lakshman Sinha	2,258	2,232	325
Jakob Kohn	2,151	2,356	301
Benjamin Cuervo	2,564	2,446	287
Varun Viges	2,370	2,525	276
Hans Baker	2,586	2,760	245
Kiran Mullangi	3,123	3,356	183
Arjun Sawardekar	3,323	3,580	167
Vuk Nikolic	4,245	4,081	134
Ryan Lee	3,974	4,275	124
Beck Riley	4,287	4,368	120
Eli Goodman	4,080	4,376	120
Paras Cherukuri	5,706	4,513	113
Alexander Lapins	5,542	4,527	112
Devan Khorana	4,311	4,652	107
Henry Alesia	4,864	5,223	88
Mateo Velasco	5,477	5,904	68
Alek Branovacki	7,250	6,015	66
Koushik Sengupta	5,749	6,193	62
Jake Lee	5,643	6,656	54
Noah Phocas	6,277	6,758	52
Shaan Khorana	7,239	7,050	46
Declan Smith	6,891	7,061	46
Marko Bakrac	6,629	7,114	46
Arjun Sawhney	6,640	7,128	46
James Rolls	7,392	7,351	42
Jonathan Kaminski	6,983	7,528	40
Diart Metarapi	6,955	7,850	36
Rai Trujillo	7,752	8,597	30
Leonardo Celani	8,240	8,859	27
Gian Mullangi	8,936	9,607	21
David Morowitz	8,132	9,676	20
Teddy McGuire	8,991	9,677	20
Dakota Croix Blackman	9,066	9,763	20
Adler Lafayette	N/A	10,000	18