 Hello, and welcome to the Evan Clifton show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm joined by students and tennis head coach Evan Clifton. And coach, you found out yesterday that the season continues for the men. In fact, you get the honor of hosting the AC Championship on Saturday against three very good teams. Yeah. Yeah, we're really excited. We're definitely thankful to get in, and especially thankful to host. And it's a great honor to participate. Obviously, it's a great honor to host it. We'll have three other really good teams here. Saturday 12th, and it'll be a great semi-final, a couple semi-final matches. And then the final, I think Pfeiffer is coming down. They'll play FDU in their semi-final. And then we will play Washington and Jefferson in our semi-final. Yeah, sorry. Yeah. Obviously teams, you know, you don't normally face. You don't know very much, but obviously, you see FDU a little bit at the Mac individual tournament. But obviously, W and J and Pfeiffer, and Pfeiffer's brand new Division III. Yeah. So they are coming in their number one seed. And obviously, coming down from Division II, and obviously, they've got some talent. Yeah, yeah, they do. And all the teams in the tournament really have a good amount of talent. And no one's going to be an easy out for anybody, especially our first match. The semi-final versus Washington and Jefferson is, I mean, they're a very, very similar team to us at every single spot. Every single spot in doubles, all six spots in singles. It's going to be a very even match. It's going to be exciting. We're going to have to play our best to be able to win. And we're looking forward to it, and we're excited for that. Yeah. Now, how do you go out? Obviously, in a team's sport, like basketball, football, it's easy to go and look at film. Obviously, tennis, you don't have that luxury. So how do you prepare for a team that you haven't seen at all? Yeah, stuff. I mean, obviously, you look at guys' ratings at their UTR numbers, and you look at how they've done against similar opponents and that sort of thing. But we do do a little bit of film sometimes. Obviously, there's in the film exchange, like there's in football and lacrosse and others. A lot of it is sort of self-reflective. Like we filmed some of our own practices, some of our own matches, and we go back through, especially in doubles, where you can look at formations, you can look at situational things, and really pick apart your own game, and at least put yourself in the best position to be successful against anybody. As long as we feel like, generally speaking, if we are playing well and we can impose our game, then in that case, it might not matter who's on the other side of the net. As long as we can play our best and play the way we want to play, we feel like we can beat just about anybody. That's certainly a good point. One of the things, obviously, you can look at general film and look at ways to improve, and that way, not as concerned with your opponents, so you just go out and play your best, and hopefully, like you said, you impose that will on them, and the match will go your way. Absolutely. All right, coach, we wish you the best of luck on Saturday. We hope to see everyone out at the Greenspring courts, and we'll chat next week to wrap up the season. Thank you. All right, for Evan Clifton, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Evan Clifton Show.