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We were in grave danger of losing this match for a long period of time. TCU won the first singles set on courts 1-5, and went on to win 2 out of the 3 matches decided in 2 sets, tying the match at 2-2. Things were looking very bad at that point; the TCU players were playing extremely well and all of our players on courts 1-5 were looking overmatched. It was impossible to see where we were going to get any points other than Higuchi on 6. The only player I had any confidence might turn things around was Lampl, and that was just because she often loses the first set and then gets rolling. But her opponent was extremely good and playing well so it didn't seem likely. Davidson had to pull two big comebacks to get into a third set on court 3: she was down 0-4 in her second set, managed to get it to 6-6, then in the tiebreaker was down 2-6, but managed to save FOUR match points in a row and went on to win the tiebreaker 8-6 to push her match to a third set. That was brobdingnagian, because if she had lost, TCU would have been up 3-2 very quickly in singles, and much more pressure would have been on Lord and Lampl to win their matches in 3 sets. It was much better to have 3 chances to win 2. As it turned out, both of them won their matches so Davidson's match didn't count, but boy was it important. TCU put a ton of pressure on us and the players responded by gutting out the wins. An exciting and heartstopping match.

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We were in grave danger of losing this match for a long period of time. TCU won the first singles set on courts 1-5, and went on to win 2 out of the 3 matches decided in 2 sets, tying the match at 2-2. Things were looking very bad at that point; the TCU players were playing extremely well and all of our players on courts 1-5 were looking overmatched. It was impossible to see where we were going to get any points other than Higuchi on 6. The only player I had any confidence might turn things around was Lampl, and that was just because she often loses the first set and then gets rolling. But her opponent was extremely good and playing well so it didn't seem likely. Davidson had to pull two big comebacks to get into a third set on court 3: she was down 0-4 in her second set, managed to get it to 6-6, then in the tiebreaker was down 2-6, but managed to save FOUR match points in a row and went on to win the tiebreaker 8-6 to push her match to a third set. That was brobdingnagian, because if she had lost, TCU would have been up 3-2 very quickly in singles, and much more pressure would have been on Lord and Lampl to win their matches in 3 sets. It was much better to have 3 chances to win 2. As it turned out, both of them won their matches so Davidson's match didn't count, but boy was it important. TCU put a ton of pressure on us and the players responded by gutting out the wins. An exciting and heartstopping match.