April 11, 2009
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Final Stats
Overall thoughts following Tulane's sweep of the Kangaroos
"I thought we played well. After yesterday's disappointing loss, I thought we did a good job of regrouping and focusing on the things we didn't do so well yesterday. I am pleased with today's effort. Playing with more confidence and making more things happen was a little bit of it, but we enjoy playing outside. We're more of an outdoor team and I think we just did a great job today of taking control early in the match whereas we didn't do that at all yesterday."
On what happened in Friday's loss at Kansas
"Yesterday, the entire day, was disappointing on many levels. The first level is that our doubles went down so quick. We 0-1'd five games. Kansas is a great indoor team. We went there, played indoors and it disappeared quickly. We couldn't break rhythm, we couldn't hold serve and we couldn't even break serve yesterday. Going into singles with everyone down and being beaten by such a lopsided score in doubles was hard to overcome."
On what the 7-0 sweep of UMKC does for the team's confidence
"Obviously, today was a good day for us. That is only because we did the things that we were supposed to do yesterday. We really came back out, regrouped and stayed focused on the task at hand, and those were to stay mentally focused and getting better. Yesterday, we literally didn't adjust, didn't try anything new and it was hard to recover. But I think today was a great momentum builder and a confidence builder for going into playing Memphis on Tuesday. Memphis is a nice team and with them being a C-USA team, we want to do well there. Sweeping a Division I team is always fun. It doesn't matter if they're the No. 1 team in the country or their unranked. It's definitely a confidence builder for this young team."
On the team getting a boost from the bottom of the line-up
"Liz was battling a migraine today so we took her out after doubles. I thought today was a great effort by Lange and Siegel both. Siegel hasn't played a singles match for us in quite a while, and I thought she did a good job of staying focused and aggressive in the point."
On the difference between today's performance in the win and yesterday's effort in the 6-1 loss
"Yesterday, we came out flat and we were forced to play indoors. Weather was threatening the area and the wind was really bad. But that was the worst I've seen our team play all year. Mariam did a great job, but the rest of the team - I've never seen them play so flat. I swear that at one moment I looked up and we were down 3-0 in the second set. Not having Anna hurt us yesterday."
