North Charlotte Today

Charlotte tennis player Matthew Haden finished 6,353rd in February in the junior Boys’ 12 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 5,911th.

By the end of the month they’d earned four 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
Rafael Lopez	N/A	208	2,019
Chinedu Nwokedi	188	214	1,954
Siddhant Dua	300	321	1,395
Petru Cotoman	350	389	1,159
Daniel Dimitrov	613	615	732
Henos Serekeberhan	615	674	680
Allen Shirazyan	616	692	662
Abhinav Ramireddy	996	1,110	440
Evan Yang	1,184	1,286	376
Shriram Joshi	1,203	1,300	373
Ivan Vdovichenko	1,205	1,306	369
Jeevith Reddy	1,395	1,515	308
Edward Augenstein	1,449	1,564	292
Luke Yett	1,601	1,732	249
Charles Carpenter	1,630	1,767	243
Carter Gannett	1,935	1,888	218
Santiago Ballester	2,012	2,183	170
Aniruddh Dayananda	2,112	2,309	156
Samat Kramin	2,162	2,358	150
Quinn Brock	2,313	2,722	118
Brodie Fox	2,677	2,930	100
Maxwell Tai	2,775	3,045	92
Milan Mishra	3,031	3,332	76
Carter Parrish	4,211	3,338	76
Luka Milas	3,144	3,464	70
Sam Harrell	3,434	3,778	57
Iniyan Gokulkumar	3,704	4,098	46
Elijah Fath	3,767	4,157	44
Aleksandar Sinanovic	N/A	4,254	40
Bradley Shaw	3,978	4,384	38
Gray Riebe	4,347	4,682	30
Zachary Pineno	4,633	5,055	24
Graham Albertsen	4,919	5,443	16
Samuel Starnes	5,013	5,513	16
Shreyan Basu	5,571	6,085	8
Vaibhav Bhat	5,743	6,265	8
Matthew Haden	5,911	6,353	4