Cobb Reporter

Marietta tennis player Owen Collins finished 7,190th in February in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 6,893rd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 60 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
James Weber	235	257	2,181
Stephen Zhu	644	674	1,029
Rajat Shirur	845	683	1,021
Jaiden Dodia	1,172	1,342	571
Kayden Colombo	2,726	2,591	303
Porter Hornigold	2,724	2,755	283
Bailey Raymond	2,487	2,900	263
Declan Boxa	3,041	3,200	229
Aashray Arun	3,136	3,298	219
Rishab Thiyagarajan	3,282	3,411	208
Nithil Viswanathan	3,394	3,571	195
Mickey Pancich	3,801	3,573	195
Arish Damani	3,594	3,764	180
Chris Zhou	4,427	3,815	176
Harshid Balachandar	3,715	3,826	175
Sharvil Kulkarni	3,927	4,134	155
Connor Shen	4,472	4,702	126
Ethan Lo	4,911	5,136	110
Pratt Yerger	5,318	5,565	95
Shiv Kinnarkar	6,389	6,373	74
Ethan Swatski	6,132	6,481	71
Griffin Searles	6,183	6,537	70
Nihal Viswanathan	6,306	6,677	68
Peyton White	6,541	6,912	62
Owen Collins	6,893	7,190	60
Avid Khan	7,238	7,604	52
Harrison Odom	9,480	7,676	51
Jackson Taylor	7,363	7,731	50
David Fu	7,599	7,983	46
Cole Nabinger	7,733	8,116	46
Anshul Panchal	7,829	8,212	43
Mehul Goel	8,224	8,633	38
Baker Watson	8,296	8,680	38
Bryce Phan	8,266	8,738	38
Blake Jarrett	8,379	8,821	37
Lucas Liu	8,711	8,853	37
Jake Mong	8,955	9,443	30
Teo Johnson	9,011	9,525	30
Kyle Richardson	9,104	9,648	30
Oscar Chen	9,262	9,751	30
Dara Kaya	N/A	9,798	30