Steve Bietau Quotations

We started off playing well in the doubles and won there, but at the beginning of singles, things went in the opposite direction.

We're looking forward to playing and looking forward to seeing what we can do in this tournament.

She's really taken off. She improved because of a combination of things that she has been working really hard at.

She's really had an outstanding stretch here lately. She has not only won a lot of matches, but last weekend against Nebraska, she beat the type of player that had been giving her problems.

She has the most experience on our team, and she is pretty clear under pressure. It was more apparent that she knew what to do.

She is not 100 percent, and we know that. Right now, it?s a question that we don?t know how to answer.

She is becoming more and more solid as the season goes on. We knew she had some weapons, but it was just a matter of her getting tougher mentally and physically.

My hope is eight days from now we will look like a different team. We're going to try to start to eliminate mistakes.

I am really happy that we got through this weekend with two wins. It was important for us to keep any kind of NCAA (tournament) hopes alive and just to stay in the thick of the conference race.

Her opponent was good at luring Fernanda into making mistakes but wasn't good at winning points outright.

Her maturity level has gotten a lot better. She is becoming easier to coach, as well.

I think the danger is you start to think the answer to playing together is finding a new partner. At this point, I don?t think that is the issue.

I thought we made very good progress this season. We had a lot of potential last year, but we couldn't overcome injuries. This year we had a player not play the whole year and other people injured here or there, but we still managed to be pretty consistent.

I think anybody who has players would love to see how they could do at full strength.

It is becoming less about what she wants to do and more about what she needs to do.

Jessica meant a lot to our team in her career and especially this year. I feel good about who we have coming back, but we will definitely miss her.

Jessica has had a great career. She has been through all of the highs and the lows of the last four years, and she was part of what was arguably the best team in the history of our program.

Jessica has been on top of her game lately. She has had a good finish, especially last Sunday against Nebraska.

Our team has pride, and they don?t like getting beat like that.

Texas and Texas A&M, for a longer period of time, have been elite teams in the conference, and that's not to take anything away from Baylor right now, but they've been playing at that level longer.

It doesn't directly impact the conference race, but I think it does indirectly, because we can become a better team because of these matches.

I think they?re looking forward to going to California, maybe not just for the tennis but also to go to California for spring break.

You have to do something right to be able to play in a big match at this point in the year. It definitely has some significance attached to it for us.

We'll certainly respect Oklahoma as a good team and a dangerous team. Their win against Nebraska was one of their best of the year.

We could have played her (Saturday), but we knew that we would need her against Oklahoma, so we did not want to risk anything.

There are not any big things left. The big things we took care of in the fall, or they are big things that we cannot take care of, because they are not going to get fixed right now.

You have language issues and cultural issues, and sometimes it makes the communication a real challenge for them, and I know for me. You are in this intense competitive situation where emotions are at a pretty high level, and you're dealing with a certain amount of stress, so it?s a big challenge.

What we are hoping for is for somebody to step up and force us to move them up to No. 1 and start winning at No. 1.

We had those four singles matches out there where, other than No. 1 singles, any of them could have gone either way. The only point where I started to feel good was after we won the fourth point.

These are the type of teams that we really look forward to playing because we have the opportunity to make a big mark. You don't get that chance everyday.

These matches are just so competitive. You look at all the 4-3 matches we have had, and I really think there is 50 or 60 teams in the country that could all win against each other at a given time.

The tennis team is kind of like a second family. We hang out together and live together, so we have to be close.

They put together a more complete performance than they have in the past.

They obviously present a big challenge for us. They are not only one of the elite teams in the conference, but they are one of the elite teams nationally.

They really put up a good fight. Every one of them showed improvements over the last time they played Texas A&M.

The more she played the worse she moved.

It was a tough weekend on the road for us. We were beat up, and the conditions were tough with it being hot down there.

It's a good thing for college tennis. It's a fun place to play, but it's not easy to be in the fire there against them.

It's an important milestone for us. They won a match in a way that they have never done before.

They were thought of as an elite team all year long. At times they have struggled to keep that elite status, but they've been very good all the way through.

Their record wasn't great early, but their schedule was just brutal. They had a big win over Texas last week ? that might show just how strong they really are.

I?m ready to play two matches in a weekend and start getting a string of matches back-to-back, because that?s where you can really start to make some progress. You can play a match, adjust, and really start to build on some things.

I know that they do it. I think it is an indication that they are fairly close with each other, and I think it's a good thing, but I am not on the inside of that stuff.

If she continues to play at this level, then she's going to win.

If you look at their results, we're really not quite sure what to expect.

I hope it?s a progress thing. That's two freshmen and a sophomore out there. It?s week in and week out, and they don?t get a lot of chance to catch their breath.

You could tell me who's playing No. 3 for one of these teams, and I wouldn't even know what she looks like.

You could say that we have three No. 2 doubles teams.

The match-up here was so close that the team that competed the best was going to come out the winner. I think the results speak for themselves.