South Raleigh News

Raleigh tennis player Rich Zhou finished 688th in November in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started November ranked 709th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 977 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
Matthew Forbes	33	34	5,372
William Manning	77	74	4,228
Parker Mariencheck	328	332	1,738
Alexander Wood	442	464	1,322
Rich Zhou	709	688	977
Anthony Dry	722	727	914
John Agnew	744	743	895
Travis Kimball	1,247	1,258	559
Gavin Goode	1,364	1,452	498
Duy-Thai Nguyen	1,710	1,639	453
Cameron Lange	1,968	1,801	419
Harrison Glickstein	1,887	1,927	391
Brayden Hakerem	2,181	2,195	341
Alex Ovalle	2,203	2,222	335
Elias Morcos	2,387	2,423	306
Will Calingaert	2,563	2,613	280
Benjamin Pataki	3,119	3,194	212
Andrew Beeson	3,858	3,941	151
Matthew Southern	3,967	4,058	146
Malek Mustafa	3,713	4,083	144
Jackson Manning	4,231	4,316	130
Griffin Goode	4,075	4,644	116
Lucas Bui	5,910	5,007	101
Connor Riely	5,074	5,035	100
Kyle Lange	5,405	5,114	98
William Chen	6,210	6,369	64
Logan Jimenez	6,321	6,473	62
Blick Alexander	7,517	6,482	62
Brian Eddleman	6,347	6,499	61
Ryan Hill	6,449	6,624	60
William Brown	7,323	7,520	46
Gabriel Morcos	7,470	7,649	44
Nathaniel Minsley	7,765	7,777	42
Walter Faris	8,419	7,906	40
Robert Chen	7,890	8,071	38
Ryan Nagaraj	8,367	8,576	32
Justin Kim	8,523	8,728	32
Townsend Ward	N/A	9,272	29
Noah Peeters-Dufour	9,183	9,376	28
Ambrose Alexander	9,427	9,606	25
Owen Treadway	N/A	9,616	25