Chaim Schalk, Canada – “It was good, we grinded it out and we won. That’s what we need, when you don’t play your best but you win. We found the points when we needed them. They (Iran) are a good team. It is going to be a battle Tuesday. Doppler and Horst (of Austria) are a really good team and they’re going to have 10,000 people in front of them. I think we are just going to go out and enjoy it and find our rhythm. Every game we need to take a step forward in this tournament, get a little stronger every game, that’s the goal moving forward. I think we have a good shot there.”
Ben Saxton, Canada – “I was just struggling and not seeing the court very well. We made a little adjustment in the second set: we switched sides and I started jumping higher. That helped and we got more consistent and made the plays we needed to make. It was really hot. We figured it out and won the close one that we needed to. We’ve been struggling a little bit this year so we switched sides at the start of this tournament to see if the other way would work out better. We haven’t been winning the closes ones until this one. We’ve been right down to the wire in a lot of our games and not closing it out. So it’s nice to have one like this and hopefully that will help us turn the corner.”
Rahman Raoufi, Iran – “This is the first time Iran has qualified for the World Championships. Today we were very close to winning. We won in the first set but then things didn’t go our way in the next two sets. I think next match will be even better for Iran.”