PHX Reporter

Scottsdale tennis player Surya Surandran finished 5,922nd in February in the junior Boys’ 18 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 5,752nd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 62 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
Jack Brown	83	174	2,856
Ivan Perisic	219	211	2,549
Mateo Moss	453	452	1,506
Ntal Richards	431	776	896
Trevor Rein	940	1,066	649
Justin Sowinski	2,280	1,949	339
Diego Aguilera	1,944	2,006	326
Santiago Ledesma	4,754	2,890	203
Tanush Varma	4,320	4,022	123
Reed Berbeco	5,399	4,640	98
Yuki Matsui	4,550	4,679	97
Blake Boskoff	4,751	4,882	90
Jason Latz	4,575	5,167	82
Akshay Shyam	5,027	5,172	82
Andre Galowicz	5,050	5,813	65
Andre Johnson	5,034	5,827	64
Surya Surandran	5,752	5,922	62
Aidan Lin	6,154	6,314	56
Conor Cruse	6,440	6,626	50
Simer Singh	1,193	7,165	41
Purvansh Bhatia	9,488	7,784	33
Christoph Gey-Ellis	3,678	7,930	31
David Chin	8,155	8,384	30