Minneapolis Review

Minneapolis tennis player Zachary Zhu finished 9,749th in December in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 9,440th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 26 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 December
Kai Chen	203	203	2,483
Rishi Ranjith	771	736	904
Samuel Leslie	815	833	810
Bode Campbell	823	843	807
Abhinav Maneesh	848	866	786
Andy Norman	1,047	947	725
Evan Fraser	1,206	1,010	684
Gavin Kelleher	1,870	1,606	468
Humza Chaudhri	2,019	1,834	420
Kamalesh Packiaraj	2,139	2,004	384
Raiden Chen	2,073	2,070	369
Joshua Cook	2,488	2,320	325
Sai Buddi	2,641	2,456	303
Isaac Lower	2,668	2,619	282
Jasper Strom	2,876	2,944	243
Lou Smith	2,964	3,004	237
Braden Fitzgerald	4,407	3,780	167
Tanay Panguluri	4,763	4,212	140
Sean Oslund	4,480	4,628	120
Dhiren Akkina	4,533	4,679	119
Anil Harshith Bharadwaj	5,436	5,616	86
Allan Wang	5,543	5,732	84
Malhaar Jain	6,280	6,357	68
Zahir Hassan	6,381	6,572	62
Ryder Held	6,408	6,601	62
Sebastian Miguel Rodriguez Garcia	6,946	7,181	54
Ezra Strom	7,244	7,482	48
Vhetrri Vijay Prabhakar	7,379	7,626	46
Cooper Held	7,585	7,859	44
Bharath Nair	7,622	7,891	43
Ben Breitbach	7,652	7,923	42
Revan Pothacamury	9,517	7,995	41
Charles Graff	9,823	8,048	40
Hari Akkina	8,553	8,868	32
Keshav Singh	8,970	9,055	30
Zachary Dresner	9,148	9,454	30
Karming Phoon	9,412	9,487	29
Zachary Zhu	9,440	9,749	26
Louis Bastian	9,600	9,951	24