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Our No. 1 doubles team played near flawless tennis to whip a very good Bradshaw No. 1 team. It was a great warm-up for their state doubles tournament this weekend.

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 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.

Martina Navratilova

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

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.

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.

Lleyton Hewitt

That says a lot about where their passion lies and it's not going to be an easy tie at all. I know Max, he loves this kind of competition. I lost to him in the Sydney Olympics when (he was) playing for Belarus. He played extremely strong that day and he's a great doubles player, so I don't think any of the live rubbers are going to be that easy.

I was real happy with our first doubles (team). They started off slowly this morning and then did a nice job. I still don't think they are playing to their potential, but it's only been a short time that they've been playing together. I think that they're going to get better and better.

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.

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?

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.

I think getting the doubles point would have made things a little easier. But we never gave up. That's something we have to hang our hat on.

Martina Navratilova is an incredible person who has done so much for our sport. Venus and Serena are incredible. And Lisa is a good team player who plays singles and doubles well.

There is still some work to do in our doubles because it is important to get the doubles point in matches. We need to focus on the match and play like we can.

Derek White played a very good match and our number two doubles played well today.

The No. 2 doubles match can either gain a team momentum, or make them lose it.

It was great doubles and could have gone either way. It's tough to lose the doubles, because you always want that first point, but we're playing well, and now we just need to win four singles matches.

They've got some good singles and doubles players. They could make a serious run for the region championship.

It was a great battle, they just played too well down the stretch. You could see why they are No. 1 in the country. They're a great team. When we got the doubles point by no means did we think we had them. We knew that we were at least in the match.

They could be a fairly nice doubles team.

They did a lot of good things. They had a lot of fun. That's something my other doubles teams didn't have. They kept each other up. That can go a long way.

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.

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

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.

The other night the doubles played well, but the singles were terrible. Last night we just flip-flopped it where the singles played well, but the doubles were terrible.

We had three pictures by Brice; now we have six. So this doubles our holdings.

This was a big win for our girls. They had a girl out and had to forfeit No. 3 singles and No. 3 doubles matches. Our third-rated player, Kristin Baylor, was out, and we had to substitute her with Meg King in the No. 2 doubles spot.

We're trying to do the same thing (as the doubles players) grow the game.

We need to do more work with the doubles but we'll get there.

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

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.

Lee Matthews

We did a very good job in doubles today. Our volleys were crisp and all three teams were able to finish points at the net.