Central OC Times

Irvine tennis player Mac Perkins finished 6,891st in February in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 7,373rd.

By the end of the month they’d earned 49 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
Rishvanth Krishna	57	60	4,943
Brayden Tallakson	150	148	2,926
Ethan John	209	231	2,161
Alex Croitoru	265	281	1,851
Jihyuk Im	422	426	1,346
Rohan Grewal	483	525	1,132
Connor Hwang	582	633	968
Reid Hashimoto	865	943	690
Kaiden Somaratne	1,079	965	677
Aditya Joshi	1,255	1,262	546
Christopher Hong	1,187	1,298	537
Siddharth Bharadwaj	1,431	1,531	472
William Zhang	1,549	1,657	443
Nathan Han	1,980	1,802	412
Arjun Appa	2,104	2,143	340
Langston Walter-Wu	2,132	2,265	320
Champion Okey	2,206	2,346	302
Harry Su	2,210	2,350	302
Daniel Zhu	2,295	2,439	288
Aashray Atmakur	2,547	2,445	287
Cedric Lichtsteiner	2,476	2,532	274
Tyler Chandler	3,632	3,056	210
Ziming Tang	2,999	3,140	201
Eugene Ban	3,903	3,459	176
Yanting Li	3,722	3,462	176
Gavin Hui	3,672	3,491	174
Ayan Iqbal	3,317	3,579	168
Peter Lin-Tsai III	4,124	3,718	157
Trevor Cheng	3,462	3,740	156
Hongyi Zhou	4,038	3,788	152
Preston Graves	3,764	4,048	136
Jason Ren	7,279	4,122	132
Reyansh Pant	3,871	4,162	129
Alfred Du	4,081	4,377	120
Tobias Law	4,392	4,436	117
Shivi Goyal	5,504	4,455	116
Ivan Lin	4,253	4,578	110
Brody Jao	4,491	4,837	100
Sage Weinberg	5,220	4,841	100
Justin Qiao	5,067	4,842	100
Philip Suk	4,586	4,926	96
Zaydin Lateef	4,601	4,942	96
William Ro	6,352	5,164	90
Sebastian Magers	5,055	5,451	80
Ryan Park	5,087	5,478	80
Donald Cao	5,105	5,497	79
Tianlin Bao	5,667	5,643	76
Sameer Grewal	5,243	5,652	76
Aurele Verrando	5,259	5,670	75
Jiakang Chen	9,388	5,809	71
Jeremy Ha	5,454	5,885	69
Winner Okey	5,470	5,898	68
Andrew Zhang	6,725	6,017	66
Matthew Sato	5,687	6,129	64
Ethan Yu	5,740	6,182	62
Justin Zhang	5,770	6,213	61
Yohaan Murthy	6,319	6,802	51
Chinh Dang	6,334	6,816	50
Isaac Chhiv	6,393	6,874	49
Mac Perkins	7,373	6,891	49
Jack Fedro	8,548	6,951	48
Aidan Chew	7,013	7,033	47
Guannan Du	6,660	7,153	45
Kristian Petrov	6,745	7,243	44
Rain Yu	7,323	7,340	42
Garran McKay	N/A	7,722	38
Louie Hanson	7,201	7,750	38
Lawrence Liu	7,318	7,875	36
Fu-Lin Damon Ko	7,337	7,895	36
Maximos Venidis	7,395	7,902	36
Siyuan Wang	7,369	7,925	35
Blake Fraley	7,396	7,951	35
Selim Youssef	7,400	7,954	34
Neel Topkar	7,420	7,977	34
William Chen	8,640	7,978	34
Anthony Nguyen	8,039	7,994	34
Rohan Appa	7,700	8,017	34
Ian Lee	7,452	8,018	34
Vinay Chakravarthy	7,685	8,063	33
Xusheng Ou	7,539	8,098	32
Taha Nasir	7,742	8,330	31
Jalen Chiou	7,745	8,334	31
Gabriel Kluber Martinez	7,750	8,599	30
Partha Dhana	7,776	8,608	30
Kyler Somaratne	8,415	8,911	27
Myles Nelson	8,811	9,051	25
Aidan Lai	8,462	9,079	24
Evan Li	8,460	9,082	24
Mourya Nunna	N/A	9,093	24
Ian Kim	8,631	9,239	24
Junxi Pan	8,718	9,364	24
Gavin Yue	5,880	9,529	22
Parker Wu	8,901	9,572	21
Kenton Roh	9,070	9,768	20
Deen Salhab	9,935	9,813	19
Henry Yang	2,966	9,840	19