North Gwinnett News

Suwanee tennis player Nicolas Zapata finished 7,163rd in February in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 6,973rd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 41 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
Robert Bauer	60	74	4,442
Aidan Kim	108	109	3,615
Eshaan Dani	487	494	1,381
Cortland Grove	663	679	1,047
Jason Kim	8,552	750	939
Aidan Atwood	1,340	1,005	705
Michael Thomas	1,254	1,135	614
Aryan Paliwal	2,186	2,109	306
Richard Zhou	2,128	2,178	294
Myan Ponugoti	2,079	2,796	214
Srihan Jairam	3,674	3,771	137
Riley Riggs	3,872	3,971	126
Stefan Spatariu	4,356	4,477	105
Chetan Challa	4,580	4,713	96
Sean Park	4,886	5,021	87
Bahuliya Manyapu	5,444	5,616	70
Christopher Park	5,973	6,132	60
Advay Velumani	5,984	6,141	60
Chan Ryoo	6,774	6,959	44
Nicolas Zapata	6,973	7,163	41
Tanush Reddy Gade	6,854	7,182	41
Aryan Patel	8,215	7,404	38
Kevin Zhang	5,315	7,964	31
Ashwin Sankar	7,765	8,048	30
Harry Kim	8,279	8,512	28
Prabhav Agrawal	8,373	8,596	27
Joaquin Luque	8,397	8,613	26
Abhiram Chiduruppa	9,109	8,647	26
Jack Sherman	8,496	8,734	25
Richard Ha	8,537	8,774	25
Tanay Gupta	8,596	8,812	24
Pranav Guru	8,888	9,144	22
Jeremy Thomas	9,504	9,457	20
Anish Madireddy	9,300	9,609	19
Ryan Huffman	9,360	9,672	18
Matthew Thomas	N/A	9,902	17
Jonathan Lin	1,232	9,958	17