April 22, 2004
South Carolina Head Coach Kent DeMars
“It is incredibly tough to have to play the home team, especially when they are higher ranked. I knew it was going to be an uphill battle. I got on them after the doubles because I didn’t think we were playing particularly well at that point. However, we saw Mississippi State come from behind and top a higher seeded Tennessee team and I knew we could do it.”
“We’ve got a good, positive drive going right now and we’re just going to try and ride it. We need to go out and keep this momentum going [against Florida].”
South Carolina’s Ben Atkinson
“I gathered a lot of confidence when I saw Carl [Wermee] and Tom [Eklund] win. I knew if I could hold serve, I could win. It was fun playing in front of a large, loud crowd. A lot of people counted us out of that match, but we didn’t care what they thought. We knew we could win.”
South Carolina’s Pedro Rodrigues
“It feels really good to get that win. It’s been hard adjusting from Brazil to South Carolina and I’ve definitely have had some trouble adjusting. I was down 4-1 and I just decided to play the type of game I usually played in Brazil. For us it was a great victory. I lost focus for a while because all of the other matches were done and all of a sudden, there was a lot of attention on my court.”
