The tennis courts at the high school are currently a mute shade of yellow, but, according to Athletic Director Andrew Ewald, they used to be orange.

“When that paint first got applied it was orange, and it was supposed to be orange,” Ewald said. “Obviously the colors weren’t either applied correctly or it was the wrong product because it was never supposed to fade the way it faded.”

In addition to the court’s colors being updated, Ewald said the tennis courts will be redone this summer to replace the 20-year-old facility with repairs.

“They’re doing some borings into the soil to see what the soil quality underneath is,” Ewald said. “Hopefully it’s just redoing the asphalt, redoing the fencing, redoing the painting job and the sealing job on it.”

Junior tennis captain Susanna Hu said she is excited about the courts’ reconstruction because of their color and age.

“The yellow reflects the sun. It’s really hard for our team and teams that come and compete with us to see the balls, so a lot of times our line calls are off,” Hu said. “Everybody complains about our courts, so it’s nice that we get decent courts now.”

According to Ewald, the construction schedule aims to avoid interfering with both the boys’ and girls’ tennis seasons.

“Boys’ tennis finishes up this spring and girls’ tennis will start up the second week of August, so ideally there’s June, July and a couple weeks in August where they would have to get this project done and not disrupt any of the programming,” Ewald said.

Tennis coach David Breitenbucher said he looks forward to the reconstruction because Park has seven tennis courts.

“It’s kind of a luxury, and I’m super excited about it, and I think we’re lucky to have the financial ability to do it,” Breitenbucher said. “It’s pretty nice that other teams see our courts and our facilities and it’s first class. It’s kind of nice to be that school in a conference that we’re in, and show we care about our facilities.”