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Order on the Court
The East Chapel Hill High School girls tennis team thrives after a disrupted season By Re n e e Amb ro so P ho to g rap hy by Jo h n M ic h ael S imp son
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ast Chapel Hill High School senior Asha Sata is up five games to two in the second set
of her tennis match. It’s late afternoon, and the shade creeping over the half-dozen hard courts at ECHHS hasn’t reached hers yet. She toes the baseline and takes a breath, preparing to serve as her opponent from Charles E. Jordan High School waits across the net. The pair are stuck in a tie as others finish out their matches and trickle off the courts. Asha fights her way through nearly ten deuce points before securing the game and the win. “Good match,” coach Nick Walker says to both players as they flip the scorecards back to zero,
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