North Charlotte Today

Charlotte tennis player Evan Yang finished 1,221st in November in the junior Boys’ 12 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 1,190th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 376 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
Chinedu Nwokedi	180	193	1,934
Rafael Lopez	215	220	1,733
Petru Cotoman	317	350	1,159
Siddhant Dua	393	361	1,117
Daniel Dimitrov	874	716	619
Henos Serekeberhan	769	723	615
Allen Shirazyan	1,109	814	561
Abhinav Ramireddy	1,049	958	489
James Langdon	1,488	1,172	393
Shriram Joshi	1,119	1,173	393
Evan Yang	1,190	1,221	376
Jeevith Reddy	1,398	1,437	308
Luke Yett	1,576	1,658	249
Ivan Vdovichenko	2,223	1,753	228
Charles Carpenter	1,754	1,812	214
Edward Augenstein	1,892	1,963	186
Carter Gannett	1,925	1,995	182
Santiago Ballester	2,181	2,062	170
Samat Kramin	2,135	2,217	150
Sota Ono	1,914	2,272	143
Quinn Brock	2,269	2,337	134
Samarth Kasaraneni	2,321	2,397	128
Brodie Fox	3,186	2,707	100
Milan Mishra	2,940	3,065	76
Wilson Zheng	2,918	3,175	70
Sam Harrell	3,319	3,469	57
Luka Milas	N/A	3,547	54
Elijah Fath	3,624	3,775	44
Andrew Martin	3,628	3,779	44
Carter Parrish	4,440	4,209	32
Zachary Pineno	4,504	4,689	24
Samuel Starnes	4,826	4,881	16
Alden Semones	3,579	4,909	16
Weston Lemelin	5,290	5,320	8
Shreyan Basu	N/A	5,397	8
Austen Thain	5,397	5,700	8
Aaron Dekeukelaere	5,696	5,957	4