Naples Standard

Naples tennis player Zachary Plante finished 5,563rd in February in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 5,267th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 95 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
Calvin Baierl	83	102	4,059
Humza Noor	N/A	333	1,792
Juan David Velasquez Ariza	330	355	1,688
Sklar Phillips	408	439	1,468
Benjamin Sparks	640	671	1,037
Jonathan Soeth	950	1,028	717
William Freshwater	1,177	1,216	618
Minato Koido	1,366	1,228	614
Zachary Whittington	1,233	1,311	580
Ivan Kisic	1,280	1,372	564
Carson Dwyer	1,328	1,414	548
Jack Walzer	1,557	1,658	479
Aryan Bonigala	N/A	1,721	461
Rocco Didonato	1,736	1,800	441
Juan Francisco Munoz	2,643	2,015	400
Gianluca Galasso	1,907	2,017	400
Pedro Vives Melero	1,927	2,035	396
Cornelius Richter	1,973	2,092	384
Julien Perrier	2,342	2,137	376
Noah Kohn	2,302	2,429	328
Gregorio Monforte	2,821	2,973	253
David Dai	2,901	3,047	245
Alex Mazza	3,763	3,959	166
Oscar Alejandro Lopez	3,998	4,210	150
Filip Cvetkovic	4,246	4,255	150
Este Cadiou	4,394	4,387	142
Felipe Rodriguez Munoz	4,620	4,424	140
Paul Barrus	6,086	4,973	116
Akhil Nimmagadda	4,817	5,103	111
Zachary Plante	5,267	5,563	95
Charles Minvielle	7,364	5,761	90
Henry Heth	5,474	5,887	86
Laxya Patel	6,751	6,107	80
Lucas Bohdanovskyi	7,717	6,974	61
Daniel Miller	6,568	7,503	54
Santiago Alonso Rozada	N/A	7,739	50
Hudson Casto	9,529	9,133	34
Lucas Quinonez	8,835	9,303	32
Marc Risi	9,300	9,796	30
William Monette	9,412	9,896	29