18 Quotes by Marianne Bretschneider

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.