Brandon has made such great leaps forward. He has such tremendous value to the team and is a person of such high integrity. He just has such a great spirit.
Maybe a wounded bear is the hungriest bear. We have to come out and act like we're the wounded bear - like we're hungry and like we want it. If we do that opening night, that will show.
Doug Stewart is a very dangerous player. But we won't play scared of him.
It was an extremely intense match and A&M played very well. Losing two matches doesn't change our goals as we go down the road. We'll get right back at it Thursday against a very good USC team.
Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.
We could easily have stumbled at any time (this season).
We're disappointed and frustrated that we lost both matches over the weekend. But we're going to pick ourselves up from the bootstraps and get right back at it. Nothing very good came out of those two loses but we need to start making good things happen as we move forward.
Right now, we saw what a loss of a player does for us, but some teams respond really well to that.
We had a good finish to the weekend today. Monte really impressed me with his play today. He was the star on Sunday.
We're pleased to have them with us. It shows their commitment to Illinois tennis because they are giving up this opportunity to play Davis Cup to help us take another step toward another regular season conference championship.