Riikka Lehtonen, Finland – “I knew that the concentration was there and after we could stay relaxed enough. We tried to stay focused on the things we know to do. (Canada) is a really good team, they have been playing great Beach Volleyball lately. Our tactics were good enough to take the points we needed to take, our serve was also working well. The main thing is we were together on the court.”
Taru Lahti, Finland – “They changed positions, the defensive player went to the left side and it worked really good and we didn’t find the rhythm with that at the beginning but after a while we found how we needed to play. We played against (Laboureur/Sude) in Porec and they played really good. We need to concentrate on our service but we’ll see what our coach will plan.”
Camille Saxton, Canada – “They had really strong service pressure. They started off attacking our seams. It was making ne, tough to pass and two, tough for the setter to release in time, so our pass-set was off right at the beginning. But they played really well, I think we’re disappointed in how we both played. It’s hard after having such a good tournament and then just not playing our best. We would have liked to have finished on a better performance. I feel overall positive but right after a loss it stings. Tomorrow or the next day we’ll be able to see that we did a lot of things we haven’t done all season against some amazing teams so I’m proud of that.”
Julie Gordon, Canada – “They’ve been in this situation many more times than we have but at the end of the day you have to pass-set and the team who has a better pass-set is going to win and that obviously wasn’t us today. We kind of found our rhythm in the middle of the second set and then it got away from me specifically at the end of that set.