South Raleigh News

Raleigh tennis player Blick Alexander finished 6,293rd in February in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 6,933rd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 76 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
Matthew Forbes	23	25	6,645
William Manning	71	75	4,556
Parker Mariencheck	366	323	1,853
Alexander Wood	424	455	1,427
Anthony Dry	671	680	1,022
Gavin Goode	1,297	690	1,014
Rich Zhou	680	725	977
John Agnew	860	930	785
Duy-Thai Nguyen	1,719	1,815	436
Cameron Lange	1,975	1,911	419
Harrison Glickstein	1,993	2,009	400
Will Calingaert	1,917	2,027	398
Brayden Hakerem	2,214	2,331	341
Alex Ovalle	2,215	2,332	341
Benjamin Pataki	3,216	3,372	212
Jackson Manning	3,938	3,798	178
Griffin Goode	4,695	4,181	152
Andrew Beeson	3,984	4,193	151
Matthew Southern	4,093	4,323	146
Luke Thomann	4,134	4,362	144
Malek Mustafa	4,264	4,488	136
Connor Riely	4,849	4,763	123
Kyle Lange	5,188	5,148	109
Lucas Bui	5,371	5,672	91
Blick Alexander	6,933	6,293	76
William Brown	6,185	6,535	70
William Chen	6,455	6,826	64
Logan Jimenez	6,566	6,928	62
Ryan Hill	6,650	7,075	60
Tomas Lazarczyk	N/A	7,353	56
Brian Eddleman	7,078	7,453	54
Owen Treadway	8,923	7,515	54
Walter Faris	7,259	7,626	52
Britton Ferrell	7,643	8,043	46
Johnny Wolf	7,895	8,084	46
Nathaniel Minsley	8,877	8,144	45
Robert Chen	8,242	8,672	38
Gabriel Morcos	8,336	8,769	38
Lucas Bacon	8,421	8,865	36
Ryan Nagaraj	8,741	9,212	32
Ruffin Chapman	8,757	9,238	32
Justin Kim	8,898	9,372	32
Townsend Ward	9,393	9,879	29
Noah Peeters-Dufour	9,499	9,983	28