South Raleigh News

Raleigh tennis player Townsend Ward finished 9,496th in December in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started December ranked 9,188th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 29 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 December
Matthew Forbes	19	21	6,791
William Manning	74	76	4,280
Parker Mariencheck	311	320	1,738
Alexander Wood	440	449	1,349
Rich Zhou	672	687	977
Anthony Dry	714	700	952
John Agnew	740	802	838
Gavin Goode	1,433	1,504	488
Duy-Thai Nguyen	1,680	1,750	436
Will Calingaert	2,593	1,994	386
Cameron Lange	1,951	2,005	384
Harrison Glickstein	1,905	2,023	378
Brayden Hakerem	2,179	2,229	341
Alex Ovalle	2,180	2,230	341
Elias Morcos	2,408	2,441	306
Benjamin Pataki	3,177	3,246	212
Andrew Beeson	3,908	4,007	151
Matthew Southern	4,027	4,132	146
Luke Thomann	4,059	4,170	144
Malek Mustafa	4,048	4,283	136
Jackson Manning	4,272	4,397	130
Griffin Goode	4,589	4,739	116
Connor Riely	4,988	4,888	109
Lucas Bui	5,012	5,167	99
Kyle Lange	5,064	5,223	98
Brian Eddleman	6,434	6,073	74
William Chen	6,305	6,499	64
Logan Jimenez	6,404	6,605	62
Ryan Hill	6,527	6,776	60
Blick Alexander	6,769	6,985	57
Britton Ferrell	N/A	7,715	46
William Brown	7,425	7,720	46
Johnny Wolf	7,664	7,935	42
Walter Faris	7,836	8,116	40
Robert Chen	8,008	8,306	38
Gabriel Morcos	8,102	8,397	38
Nathaniel Minsley	7,706	8,416	38
Ryan Nagaraj	8,480	8,803	32
Ruffin Chapman	N/A	8,823	32
Justin Kim	8,652	8,966	32
Owen Treadway	9,536	8,995	31
Townsend Ward	9,188	9,496	29
Noah Peeters-Dufour	9,287	9,594	28
Ambrose Alexander	9,525	9,829	25