Cobb Reporter

Marietta tennis player Harshid Balachandar finished 4,161st in November in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 4,105th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 139 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
James Weber	309	251	2,176
Stephen Zhu	716	655	1,015
Rajat Shirur	1,222	1,028	667
Arish Damani	1,452	1,358	525
Jaiden Dodia	1,675	1,701	436
Bailey Raymond	2,025	2,063	365
Kayden Colombo	2,654	2,698	268
Aashray Arun	2,789	2,772	258
Porter Hornigold	2,783	2,795	255
Declan Boxa	4,589	3,118	220
Sharvil Kulkarni	3,083	3,164	215
Nithil Viswanathan	3,203	3,277	203
Ethan Swatski	3,338	3,399	191
Rishab Thiyagarajan	4,749	3,594	176
Mickey Pancich	3,962	3,733	165
Harshid Balachandar	4,105	4,161	139
Chris Zhou	4,440	4,380	128
Ethan Lo	4,793	4,861	107
William Laskey	5,116	5,196	95
Nihal Viswanathan	5,878	6,024	72
Griffin Searles	5,957	6,103	70
Benjamin Laskey	6,197	6,354	65
Pratt Yerger	6,266	6,418	63
Shiv Kinnarkar	6,881	7,044	54
Jackson Taylor	7,049	7,205	50
David Fu	7,273	7,446	46
Cole Nabinger	7,396	7,578	46
Anshul Panchal	7,494	7,670	43
Owen Collins	8,557	7,947	40
Bryce Phan	7,903	8,076	38
Baker Watson	7,935	8,084	38
Avid Khan	N/A	8,372	35
Jake Mong	8,574	8,784	30
Kyle Richardson	8,870	8,923	30
Oscar Chen	8,734	8,944	30
Teo Johnson	8,900	9,121	30
Jason Ho	9,737	9,914	24