Right

... um, it feels natural when we don't have that practice time to work on some of that during games and tournaments.

But now that we can separate those, I've gotten to work a lot on finding his set from a bigger range on the court and him finding my set.

And last week, and in Manhattan, and some of the more recent tournaments, that emphasis has really helped us on, you're playing a really good team, you're playing, you know, Trevor and Chase, or you're playing Taylor and Andy.

They're never gonna let up on service pressure.

So maybe you'll get a missed serve, but you're not getting a lollipop.

And-

Okay.

Can you talk about that experience a little bit, and what was, what was it like?

Yeah.

The Manhattan Beach more recently was a great experience.

It's been a little awkward talking about we had a very close semifinal match with Miles and Paul, both amazing players, and Paul was unfortunately injured some, coming into or during the event, and had to battle through that.

So being able to beat such a good team was really helpful in showing us where we can be, and then being able to get clobbered by such a good team, by Taylor and Andy, shows that there's always room for growth and always a next level, especially as you get into those medal matches and those high-stakes games where you need to always be on your game, but also always be able to adapt to whatever the other team does.

So I'd say it was a really great learning experience, but it wasn't eye-opening in the sense that we knew what we came there to do.

We came there to try and win, and we achieved that goal for our first five matches, and we came in with that one match at a time, "How can we beat this team? What do we need to focus on for them?" And I think that same mentality is what helped us back last year winning the Junior Pan American Games, was we didn't focus on the stakes so much as we did how can we win this match, how can we find a way to beat this team, and that helped us a lot where there was a lot of ups and downs.

Yeah.