Cobb Reporter

Marietta tennis player Shayon Odhwani finished 9,548th in December in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 9,217th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 16 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
Rajat Shirur	227	236	1,983
Kayden Colombo	334	345	1,509
Jake Mong	475	490	1,121
Aashray Arun	431	555	1,023
Henry Miller	772	785	759
Declan Boxa	896	917	667
Chris Zhou	949	930	659
Harshid Balachandar	984	1,008	616
Connor Shen	1,012	1,024	609
Avid Khan	1,052	1,081	584
Ethan Lo	1,522	1,574	443
Mickey Pancich	1,568	1,818	390
Nihal Viswanathan	1,905	1,987	359
Pratt Yerger	2,140	2,205	314
Raj Cuddapah	1,995	2,354	287
Shiv Kinnarkar	2,401	2,596	255
Owen Collins	2,921	3,048	201
Lucas Liu	3,709	3,538	159
Nehan Viswanathan	3,687	3,814	138
Evan West	4,755	5,336	75
Vikram Reddy Yeddula	5,223	5,444	72
Andrew Chen	457	5,614	68
Tahir Patel	5,500	5,724	65
Jake Wilkie	5,593	5,818	62
Tristan Slowey	8,181	5,855	61
Jordan Mahadeo	6,284	6,527	48
Zach Nagle	6,389	6,631	46
Hudson Beard	6,396	6,639	46
Jack Landrum	6,521	6,784	45
Arjun Krishnan	8,433	7,054	40
Ethan Jiang	6,819	7,097	40
Matthew Mui	6,938	7,237	38
Aarnav Sadaria	7,308	7,600	32
Graham Lennox	7,345	7,609	32
Jackson Pettus	7,824	7,855	30
Cooper Thomas	N/A	8,066	30
Nicholas Bohn	7,844	8,125	30
Daichi Nakagi	8,001	8,293	28
Maxime Lee	8,334	8,316	27
Luke Jarrett	N/A	9,099	20
Harrison Odom	N/A	9,150	19
Thomas McAndrew	8,872	9,157	19
Georgi Minkov	9,832	9,171	19
Shayon Odhwani	9,217	9,548	16
Hayden Perry	9,547	9,809	16
Rishi Anish	9,538	9,824	16
Grant Broeckelman	9,571	9,860	16