San Jose Standard

San Jose tennis player Aakash Tiwari finished 6,037th in February in the junior Boys’ 12 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 5,560th.

By the end of the month they’d earned eight 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
Vihaan Reddy	4	4	11,918
Arjun Krishnan	76	79	3,600
Rithvik Navad	N/A	160	2,441
Benjamin Jin	175	196	2,091
Keito Ishida	179	202	2,044
Alan Zhang	4,976	285	1,554
Luke Choo	423	462	989
Jotaro Takei	512	567	808
Kosuke Kimura	629	689	664
Filip Dediu	643	706	650
Brishan Paul	739	740	630
Smyan Thuta	770	799	595
Daran Ramaraj	847	910	525
Aaryan Rao	872	944	511
Ansh Sinha	1,162	1,216	400
Charlie Ha	1,263	1,315	368
Aakarsh Sukruth	1,518	1,642	270
Aarav Jain	1,656	1,738	249
Eric Guo	2,062	1,777	241
Jovan Racic	1,902	2,055	188
Aayan Pujari	2,205	2,403	146
Aryaman Sudhir	2,209	2,408	146
Yuta Arai	3,485	2,927	100
Wesley Satrijo	3,903	3,204	84
David Dai	3,104	3,428	72
Yiming Sun	3,232	3,557	65
Dennis Butchart	3,968	4,370	38
Nicholas Qi	4,134	4,535	32
Felix Sirui Lin	4,210	4,618	32
Michael Xiao	4,285	4,740	30
Kenta Itami-Wolf	4,421	4,808	30
John Kim	4,711	5,156	24
Sanjay Subramanian	4,863	5,375	16
Caleb Kim	915	5,577	16
Arjun Muthukumaran	N/A	5,653	12
Eric Wu	5,337	5,940	8
Aakash Tiwari	5,560	6,037	8
Albert Chen	5,634	6,153	8
Aarav Kashyap	5,719	6,268	8