We like playing those guys. When the singles field is so tough they're usually playing so many matches, then they have to come out and play doubles, it's tough for them. Sometimes they end up just pulling out of the doubles.

Usually it's two guys holding the victim, but this was even better. I think this trick was invented when Abner Doubleday started this game, and every year there's somebody who hasn't seen it. We had to go all the way to Japan to find someone this time.

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Those guys carried me through. I had a lot of tough three-set matches this week, and they were my legs in those third sets.

We had those four singles matches out there where, other than No. 1 singles, any of them could have gone either way. The only point where I started to feel good was after we won the fourth point.

When you go through some tough times together, you find out a lot about each other. There's a lot of different ways you can go, and this team pulled together. And this was the result of it: 10 wins.