Chicago City Wire

Chicago tennis player Lakshman Sinha finished 6,803rd in February in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 6,843rd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 65 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
Piotr Andrzejewski	50	57	5,157
Garvin Murray	460	348	1,713
Dashiell Smith	927	981	747
Noah Pendo	1,264	1,353	570
Marko Nikolic	1,596	1,456	533
Rowan Ing	1,528	1,583	497
Joah Dunwoody	1,610	1,712	464
Marko McRae	1,777	1,806	439
Christopher Morris	1,214	2,266	352
Zuhair Alsikafi	2,633	2,532	313
Kaden Brown	2,922	2,710	288
Feriyadi Hasnovi	2,674	2,809	275
Chetan Cherukuri	3,128	3,102	239
Kiyan Alsikafi	3,752	3,545	198
Mark Tismensky	3,547	3,724	182
Luca Sevim	3,588	3,762	180
Porter Baginski	3,758	3,956	166
Nick Rubens	4,407	4,076	159
William Farrell	4,384	4,247	150
Jake Goldstein	5,370	4,549	133
Jay Manadan	4,300	4,665	128
Nhylan Westmoreland	4,443	4,675	128
Sohail Sajdeh	6,747	5,411	100
Thomas Gjoklaj	N/A	6,405	72
Lakshman Sinha	6,843	6,803	65
Jakob Kohn	6,604	7,247	58
Benjamin Cuervo	7,420	7,291	57
Varun Viges	7,048	7,422	55
Raghuvir Sriram	6,931	7,537	54
Hans Baker	7,435	7,804	49
Thomas Cilella	8,331	8,765	38
Kiran Mullangi	8,505	8,964	36
Cj Nichols	8,732	9,223	32
Arjun Sawardekar	8,900	9,377	32
Jack Lyons	8,239	9,781	30
Jake Lee	8,777	9,790	30