 Welcome into the Evan Clifton show. I'm Joe Wamba. Join now with Evan Clifton, head coach of the tennis teams. Today, we're talking about men's tennis opening up down at Salisbury against Junietta, then following up against Salisbury there. First opportunities to actually play matches this year in the spring portion of the season, and first opportunity to be outside since sometime in November. Just talk a little bit about the efforts this weekend. Yeah, so going in, we knew that Junietta and Salisbury were going to be two of our toughest matches, if not our two toughest matches of the whole year. So we knew we were going up against two really good teams, two really well coached teams. They're going to make your work for everything. Nothing's going to come easy. You're not going to win any point on one shot. So we knew it was going to be tough. Obviously, the scores reflected that. We were up against it. Certainly some positives to take away. We learned a lot of things that we need to correct and improve on. But ultimately, I think the matches serve their purpose as all non-conference matches for us are to prepare us for the conference. And you do that by playing teams better than you, and learning to find that extra gear. And that's part of what this weekend was about. In your season preview, you mentioned that emphasized on serving. And this weekend, the scores show this tail of the tape, but not necessarily. The serving could be improved. But you guys were tight in a lot of those matches. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, especially one doubles and one singles in both matches. But just looking at the Juniata match, one doubles, we were on serve there towards the end. And it really came down to we just couldn't break their serve. We missed too many returns. We kind of gave them some easy points there. But by all means, we played real well at one doubles, especially against Juniata. And singles against Juniata, warned in a two, and Brian at one, played real close, one break each set. So again, one more hold a serve, and one more break a serve. And those scores were reversed. And we win those matches. And Doug at five singles did well as well. He had two close sets. I think it was four and three. So one break each set. So that's a team that's a little bit closer to our level. And we were certainly hoping to pull those out. But you've got to play those matches. You've got to learn to win those matches. And sometimes it takes more than one try. But it's the same thing with Salisbury, one doubles was close. The score is 8-3. But it was certainly every game was a deuce add. It was a lot closer than the 8-3 score would suggest. And we learned certainly two and three doubles. We're going to have to shake some things up and make some adjustments and see if we can't get that right. Those are certainly positives to bring back from the opening weekend. You'll have plenty of time to work on them and participate outside, too, to work on them. You don't have another match until March 10th, which will be at home. And that's going to be a point of pride. You guys will get a play at home. But what exactly are you guys going to be focusing on those positives that you're bringing back? So certainly, obviously, we're looking forward to that March 10th, our first home match of the year against Penn State Abington. That's going to be a close match. They played Albright, one of our conference rivals in the fall. And they pulled it out 5-4. So we know we're going to be in for a dog fight. It's going to be a close match. We're going to treat it just like we're playing Salisbury. So really, as far as we may make some lineup changes in doubles, as far as moving guys around, try different partners, see if we can find the right mix of chemistry, two and three doubles. But like I said, certainly we need to work on our returns for sure. We cannot give away easy points off the return of serve. And also, I think we missed far too many fursers. Again, part of that might be attributed to being outdoors for the first time. So the ball moves around a little bit. Doesn't travel through the court quite as much as you're used to. That being said, we're never going to use something like that as an excuse for why we'd win or lose. But yeah, so we're definitely going to work on our first serves. We need to serve a much higher percentage, take some pressure off our second serves. And then really, just like I said, return of serve and really getting points started. First serves, making first serves, and making returns. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck and the team best of luck in working on those points of effences and preparing for the home match on March 10. Sure, thank you. He's Evan Clifton. I'm Joe Wamba. This has been the Evan Clifton Show.