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Cumming tennis player Vikunth Venkatesh finished 5,604th in February in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 5,321st.

By the end of the month they’d earned 94 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
Kedar Desai	292	321	1,860
Yannik Alvarez	489	475	1,376
Blake Hilsen	596	631	1,108
Cooper Johnson	1,122	1,195	625
William Bayer	1,542	1,592	495
Nicolas Wild	1,892	1,637	485
Adhwaith Mahadev Harikumar Aruna	1,659	1,745	455
Sanjay Raghav	1,906	2,016	400
Shaurya Bajaj	1,789	2,077	387
Shaan Majeed	2,192	2,316	344
Dylan Rodriguez	2,562	2,423	329
Jackson Brady	2,459	2,590	303
Vivan Akella	3,555	3,697	186
Hriday Narang	3,826	3,775	180
Michael Thornton	4,504	3,969	166
Eben Gunyon	3,818	4,022	162
Suryanarayana Ganjikunta	3,141	4,446	138
Royce Arockiasamy	4,229	4,452	138
Aadi Dodda	4,431	4,655	128
Bryce Lepine	4,453	4,683	127
Samuel Choi	7,013	4,718	125
Aneesh Seemakurthy	4,591	4,832	120
Ishaan Reddy	N/A	5,167	108
Kevin Jonathan	4,875	5,178	108
Vikunth Venkatesh	5,321	5,604	94
Everett Meinhardt	5,360	5,661	92
Vardhan Lukkani	6,937	6,982	61
Hilton Stinson	7,536	7,167	60
Saketh Nimma	6,927	7,286	57
Daiwik Shashikanth	7,008	7,387	56
Agastya Bawane	7,852	8,240	43
Aaron Ewers	8,118	8,549	40
Thailesh Muruganandam	8,576	8,804	38
Julian Coronado	8,731	9,227	32
Pranav Marneni	8,849	9,320	32
Shreyan Bajaj	8,143	9,388	31