Mercer Times

Princeton tennis player Lukas Karapelou finished 6,441st in February in the junior Boys’ 14 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 5,509th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 58 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
Garrett Mathewson	886	920	703
Prahalad Dharma	1,871	1,092	610
Qi Ao	1,845	1,513	476
David Jin	1,639	1,644	444
Andrew Kuo	2,025	2,157	338
Rishabh Ramaswamy	2,208	2,348	302
Steven Chen	2,489	2,656	258
Zarek Chen	3,466	3,743	156
Kevin Lang	N/A	4,498	114
Santiago Montoreano	4,559	4,901	98
Vishaan Balawat	5,000	5,380	83
Azlan Safdar	5,062	5,459	80
Advaith Praveen	5,148	5,542	78
Tacto Yamada	5,559	5,995	67
Lukas Karapelou	5,509	6,441	58
Stellan Salvner	7,151	7,704	38
Konstantin Mironov	7,404	7,959	34
Emil Kapur	7,527	8,122	32
Jaiden Jain-Edwards	7,586	8,175	32
Stephen Ghiuvea	8,053	8,673	30
Darshan Chidambaram	8,742	9,045	25
Daniel Haiduc	8,721	9,368	24
Rishab Sajikumar	9,124	9,591	21
Derek Zhang	N/A	9,720	20
Ryoma Doda	9,091	9,792	19
Abeer Raj Singh	N/A	9,930	18