Lisa Raymond Quotations

It's so nice to come home and play in front of my friends and family, sleep in my own bed. I'm certainly going to miss that.

Well, the funny thing is, we didn't click in the beginning. It took us a couple tournaments to get familiar with each other and work out the kinks.

I think we work hard as a team. We don't just go out there and take it for granted. On our days off, we go out there, as well as our singles, if we're still in the doubles tournament we have at least 45 minutes to an hour where we practice certain things that we need to do for the next match.

I face Silvia Farina Elia in the next round and am looking forward to it as we played each other at the Olympics. I hope I can build on this win and go far in the tournament.

It took us a couple weeks to get on track. It was just a matter of time of us getting used to each other, getting comfortable, relaxing a little bit. The rest is kind of history, the past three weeks.

It never even crossed my mind to turn pro at 17 years old. I wasn't ready. Emotionally, I wasn't even close to being ready. My game, physically, I wasn't ready to be out here day in and day out. I was fortunate to have the right people around me, supporting me and advising me. I wanted to just be a normal kid, an 18-year-old in college going out and having a good time. I would not trade those two years for anything in the world.

It's a new role for me. In the past, I've played partners that were the less emotional leader. Now, I kind of take that role and it feels good. It's nice to be the one who kind of leads the team. It's been a nice role for me.

But it takes a bit of time to get used to playing together and the last few weeks has been great.

If you are doing well, it is an incredible lifestyle.

They started off well and we had to keep hanging in there and hopefully get our nose ahead eventually.