Nearly two weeks after a powerful storm with torrential winds blew down the front fence around the tennis court, the fence remains broken. However, that could soon change.

“The insurance adjusters came out and looked at the courts last week,” head tennis coach Adam Cherry said. “The last I heard from (athletic director) Coach Puckett, it would be fixed the end of this week or early next week.”

As a result of the damaged fence blocking off a tennis court, “home field advantage” has not been available to the Leopard’s tennis team.

“We went over to Allen to play Frisco Heritage,” Cherry said. “This upcoming Friday, we will play Allen and it will be at Flower Mound.”

With the fence hindering the available space to practice, Cherry and the tennis team have had to adapt their routine.

“We just have had to kind of set up at the first court,” Cherry said. “We still can use the six courts. So for the first day, we just kind of set up where there were four baskets on four courts and just split up everyone in the varsity period. Then we just ran our drills such as volley drills and serve- and – return drills.”

Even though the damaged fence calls for adjustment in the practice routine, and has taken away “home field advantage,” the tennis team shows no signs of slowing down with six straight wins including Tuesday’s 16-3 win at Denison. t