I was very impressed with Andy today. He weathered the storm and stayed extremely composed. ... He answered a lot of questions about where he's headed this year.
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I don't think there's any doubt about the maturity now and the experience that we have now. Now it's a question of doing it and performing. Do we have the capability of going away on clay and winning Yes. Are we as much a favorite as we are at home playing on hard court No, there's no question about that. But at the same time our guys have played well on clay at times. It's certainly not our best surface. Everybody knows that. But can we go in and win a tough match on clay Sure. We can no longer use the reason, 'Hey, we're young.' We have the experience. We know what it's like to go away and play in hostile territory. Certainly we'd prefer to have all the matches at home than away. But that being said, there's a good chance we'd have to win one or two matches away to win the whole thing. We're certainly capable of doing that.
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It's like going with the hotter hand. James is playing a lot smarter now. He was a go-for-broke player, but now he is playing with a little more intuition and smarts. He is playing percentages better. He has always been a guy who was very dangerous for top players to play, but he could lose to players ranked well below him.
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They both stepped up -- I hope we're going to have them and we're going to have them down the road -- this is a big match for us to get back (to the World Group), ... Obviously the toughest part of my job is to tell one of these guys that they're not going to play. But this is a luxury we always haven't had.
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I think that was a tough loss to take. I watched most of the match. He was up two sets to love and up 3-love in the third. I went off to an ESPN production meeting, which I'm now sorry I did. When I looked up 45 minutes later, it was two sets apiece. I couldn't figure out what happened.
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But I don't have any doubts about the maturity of the team.
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