Philip Dalhausser, USA – “We won our pool but it hasn’t been smooth so we have to play better to make it deep in this tournament. Sometimes we just aren’t in rhythm and the last few matches we haven’t been in rhythm. We have to find that tomorrow because it’s about to get real. Ryan (Doherty) and John (Hyden) played so well against us Saturday night that we are lucky we aren’t 2-1. So we’ll take it and hopefully we can build from today. One loss and you are out of here now. Single elim is a draw so you can get a bad draw. In Rio last year we won our pool and played Alison and Bruno in the quarterfinals. In Beijing Todd (Rogers) and I did not win our pool and we were on the easier side of the bracket.”
Nicholas Lucena, USA – “Phil was on fire in the first, he scored a lot of points and made it easy on us. That took a lot of pressure off the siding out. In the second I thought I made a couple plays but it was pretty dusty so it was hard to pick it up. At the end it kind of died down some. We had a game plan and it worked, we were able to score a lot of points off of them. I thought the young kid made a couple errors, but that’s what young kids do. They are a good team, they took a fifth last weekend so they can do some damage. Now the real tournament starts so hopefully we can keep it up.”
Mariusz Prudel, Poland – “It was disappointing to lose. Still, we can play so we will fight this evening (in the lucky loser match). We will concentrate on that match. This morning we did not play good, so I hope next one we will. Every game is different so I think that we will make it.”