We know that if we come out all guns firing we're definitely the favorites, so we shouldn't have any trouble. But at the same time these guys are tough. We played both of them [last year] at Texas and [at] A&M, and we had 4-3 battles with them. So obviously they're looking to get us. They want to get us at home this time because that's what we did last time, so it's going to be a big weekend.
"Somdev Kishore Devvarman" is a professional Indian people/Indian tennis player. He hit the headlines for being the only collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship/NCAA, winning back-to-back finals in his junior and senior years at the University of Virginia. Only three other players have matched that record since 1950. His 44–1 win-loss record in 2008 at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship is unprecedented.
His best achievement so far on the ATP World Tour has been reaching the final of the Chennai Open in 2009, as a wild card entry. In 2010, Somdev won the gold medal in the Tennis at the 2010 Commonwealth Games/men's singles event of 2010 Commonwealth Games/XIXth Commonwealth Games at the R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi, and he followed it up with both men's singles and doubles gold in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. He is coached by Scott McCain.
In 2011, Devvarman received the Arjuna Award from the Indian government for his tennis successes.
More Somdev Devvarman on Wikipedia.[Boland] just always tells us to keep our heads high. We still have the big one left, so that's what our main goal is. He always does a great job keeping the guys motivated. [He tells us that] it doesn't matter if we take a few bumps in the road as long as you keep getting better.
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