Marianne Bretschneider Quotations

We've talked about it in the past. We've had some girls who are up 6-0 and then the next thing you know it's 7-5. Now they're starting to really put it together.

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.

I have a very hard working group of girls and as much as they complain to me about it they really are getting in shape and it is helping and I want them to have the endurance to play a three-set match.

I have kids who want to stick with it and really enjoy the sport, which helps.

I think they were rattled a little bit at the beginning. They were thrown off their game a little bit, but they showed a lot of intensity, intestinal fortitude.

I think Courtney Owens, for never playing a tennis match a day in her life other than what she's played in practice, has done really well.

We played a lot of close matches with these kids and I think part of it was due to frustration.

We had some matches that could have gone either way. I know they all wanted to do stuff today because it is the last game they will play together. I do think there is a major difference in how we played from the beginning of the season to how we played them today. My girls have made really good strides. I only had three kids with experience.

You can tell the difference from now and when we played Freedom in our first match. I think we still could have done better.

Brittany, who is playing in her first match, has shown a lot of heart, losing a set and then coming back.

Courtney was right we really do need to work on ball placement. For a while when I talked to my kids my big thing was I want you to spend these next two games working on letting them make the mistakes. I do want them to work on control and placement. It just comes down to what they utilize what they do in practice and remembering and not fiddle-farting around and laughing and giggling. I want them to really focus and know what they can take into a match. I want them to have game plans, I want them to know what they are going to do when they go into a match.

Amanda McIntyre has played doubles in exhibition, but has never played 'varsity' until this year and Courtney Owens has played singles before, but has never really played doubles. Those two are really playing well together. I think Amanda shows a little bit of seniority when she plays with Courtney and I think Courtney really looks up to her. They still have some kinks to work out but they are learning.

It's just getting them to play this strong in back-to-back games.

I've had losses. But I'd probably go through this and not feel as bad about the situation if I knew my kids left everything out there on the court, but they haven't done that this week. I've been trying to tell them 'you need to be focused.' This isn't how my girls play tennis.

I know right now Courtney is frustrated. I will say flat out I thought Courtney was the better player. Courtney needs to work on better shot selection. Next year at this time when Courtney plays that chick it will be 6-0, 6-0.

I'm proud of Courtney Owens, especially since she just got into the sport six months ago.

In the past I've always gotten frustrated because I've seen other teams step up during the season. I knew yesterday this wasn't the same team that played Battlefield at the start of the season. They had played much better than they have in the past.

Candy had some nice placement. She was putting some stuff on the ball. She was hitting top spin, she was hitting slice. She was putting it all together.

I came down to see Courtney and she was up 5-0 in the second set. You can't ask anything more of your girls than that.