I've been enjoying it, getting a chance to play against top competition. Even when I was younger, playing high school in Natchez, a lot of people wouldn't have expected me to play at this level. It's been fun.

People are telling me I should play rep stuff again but I'm enjoying playing when I want to. Because of a back problem I may have to give singles away soon but I love doubles too much to give that away.

We had no competition in pool play, and then we went up against a good team that was playing well. I hope we can take a lesson from it. If we stick to our game plan, we should be able to spin this into a positive heading into the playoffs.

In practice in high school, it definitely wasn't easy ... The competition day-to-day [at Mason] is intense, everyone's in your face.

I've just got to draw from this and try to play this well when I'm playing tournament after tournament, week after week out on the tour by myself.

He always had it so easy. He was so much better than anybody else in high school. Now the competition was catching up with him and he was having trouble staying on top of the learning curve.