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We started slow and really dug ourselves a hole with the doubles losses. We knew we had to win.

We struggled with the weather and our doubles were hot and cold.

We're playing pretty well right now. We have a quality team, and when we play a tournament like we did today with reduced numbers - two singles matches and three doubles matches - we're pretty competitive.

Losing Jared was the toughest part of all. We had to use a different first doubles team and had to move everyone else up. It was a real deflating start.

We played well, sweeping doubles and winning three out of four singles matches in straight sets.

We didn't back down from them. Right off the bat, we nearly got the doubles point.

Martina Hingis

We worked hard all season to get ourselves into this position, ... I was very happy to be part of this team and get them going. I knew when the guys lost the first set of doubles I had to step up and get us a lead.

Darren Johnson

We are making him shoot more in practice. High crotches, doubles legs, whatever. We are hoping if he does it enough in practice it will become part of his matches.

On the positive side, a lot of games went to deuces. Our first doubles played really well at 3-6, 3-6. There were some real good matches. We have to keep plugging.

Maybe what I'm most pleased with is the way my first doubles team is playing. While trying to win singles matches is what I think we're going to need to do this year, the doubles are getting better.

Obviously, we are proud of how our No. 3 doubles team played. They fought hard and hung in there.

Craig Biggio

Obviously, 600 doubles is a heck of a lot of doubles. I am real proud of it. I remember hitting 500 at home, and who knows if you are ever going to get to 600?

Fundamentally, I would say our doubles are improving and the No. 5 and 6 singles positions are doing respectably. That said, we need to be more competitive in the other positions.

Tony Cox

I have a pretty young team. They see how Reed and Phil play doubles together and that has been a good model. They play doubles the way it should be played.

David Nalbandian

I have known him for a long time, we played juniors together and won the junior doubles at Wimbledon in 1999, so we know each other's game very well.

Taylor Dent

I feel like it would be a shame to get rid of doubles, but I guess it's on the doubles players' responsibilities to find a way to make it lucrative.

I am just at the point where I am at a loss for words. I tell them probably every year that I coach, I probably can't win every tennis match that I go out and play but I can hope they do it. We were up in every single doubles match, but we couldn't hold on to it.

We'll take it. It would be nice to have a lot of doubles and triples and maybe a homer, but we'll take the hits any way we can get them.

This was a great effort from all the guys, top to bottom. The doubles were very sound. This is what we needed as we're getting ready for the end of the season.

What we had to do in doubles was play basic, solid tennis. The main thing with a lot of new kids is they want to hit winners or they want to push the ball. You need to be consistently firm. That?s what Eric does well, and that?s what Matt Dunne did in the second set.

Martina Navratilova

I think the (ATP) are just trying to get rid of doubles and they're doing it slowly,

We try to frustrate our opponents first, rather than frustrating ourselves. We haven't had this doubles team long, and they've been working well together. We just need to be a little more crisp. It's just going to come with time.

We swept the doubles with some real smart play.

We look at all the matches the same, it doesn't matter who we play. It all comes down to the doubles point, if we can get that, then we just need four points, which we can do.

I thought the team played really well. (But) I was really disappointed in our doubles play today.

I think we're going to be able to put some pretty good doubles teams together this year, that'll help, we're usually pretty weak in doubles.

I have high hopes for the top doubles team of Will and Armando. They should be quite strong if it works out. I just hope they stay healthy.

We're tuning up the doubles and see who works well together.

We need to start off solid with the doubles point and keep playing solid with the singles. We have to keep playing how we've been playing.

First doubles played pretty well. Second doubles started off a little slow. The other team was playing well. We were down 6-5 and then ran off the last three games. They really picked it up at the end there. They started playing better tennis.

We will need some help from inexperienced underclassmen. Big rebuilding at all doubles positions.

We were working on our doubles because we got swept there by Texas Tech and (we are) focused on concentrating on the game. As the week went on, we were getting better, but now we will see in Utah.

We've had a taste of it the last two seasons. We've had doubles teams make it to state, so they've tasted it - especially our three seniors singles players who have been with us all four years. Hopefully, they'll win a few more once they get to the state tournament.