Ben Saxton, Canada – (On opening vs. Canada) “That’s pretty much what we’ve been doing all year. We always seem to get Canada first. It’s nice to come out on top in that first game. We just wanted to get out there and make sure we were as smooth as possible and we did pretty well today.”
Chaim Schalk, Canada – “We actually don’t know that team very well. They’re not on the World Tour very often but we want to always start a tournament focusing on our side and figuring out our sideout, transition, get some defense going. We know we can beat everyone if we take of ourselves so that’s going to be the thought process going into every game, just deal with our stuff, deal with the wind. The conditions weren’t perfect here so it’s great that we dealt with it.”
Aaron Nusbaum, Canada – “I don’t think we’ve ever played against Chaim and Ben and this is the first time on the World Tour kind of stage so a little bit of nervousness coming out of it. The first set, we let that go; the second set, we just missed some conversion opportunities but I think we’re ready to go for the next one."
Ryan Vandenburg, Canada – “All we have to do is shake this one off and look forward to the next one. It’s the first game of World Championships for everybody so I think everybody has a little bit of nerves. After the first few points you settle down a little bit. They played well in that first set and we were on our heels a little bit but we got off to a good start in the second set. But like Aaron said we just didn’t convert our opportunities.”