Tanja Huberli, Switzerland – “It’s really nice to have success when you see you’re working every day. It gives you a lot of self confidence, a lot of motivation, like motivation for the upcoming games or upcoming years. Whatever you’re doing, you feel confident and you’re sure you’re on the right way. For sure we have a better base level. We can win games without our best plays. Last year we had to play really good so we could beat a lot of teams.”
Nina Betschart, Switzerland – “Now we’re really into our rhythm and I’m happy to come here and compete in my first World Championships. We are really a team. We are always a team. We try to push each other and stay together and we have most of the time a good block-defense. The sideout is sometimes not so good but on good days we can make a lot of pressure with our block-defense. We have a lot of good coaches. They have a lot of patience and they have a picture in mind and they know what we need to get there and they can explain it really well. (On inspiration of having 2 Swiss Oly teams) It did inspire me. It was really cool for me as a young player to see that we Swiss players can compete against the best players in the world, we can win against Brazilians or Americans. It helped me believe in it and keep going.”