On the rare occasions he found himself at the baseline he coped ably with Gambill's unorthodox but fiercely struck ground strokes.
"When we made Eight, outwardly Stephen coped well, but afterwards he said it was a bit like Vietnam - he had no idea what was going on.
And most touching of all was that Roland's personal sponsor, Barbara Behlau [founder of Barbara MC, a Monaco-based sports management agency] was so impressed by the way we had coped with the tragedy that she wanted to put more money into the team for the rest of the season.
Allen related such consolation to Primo Levi's observation that some of those who best coped with life in the concentration camps were communists.
So I began by asking Emilie how she had prepared for and indeed coped with such a dangerous role.
For the rest of his political career, he was at the heart of the party's counsels as it coped with the effects of sustained terrorist violence, and led the drive for peace and political stability.
Does he look back now and wonder how he coped with so much turmoil, all at once?
Since the late 1990s, the world has coped with economic meltdown in South-East Asia, the dotcom boom and bust, and the American housing bubble and subsequent banking collapse.
It has coped well with the recession, with an unemployment rate two points below the national average and one of the lowest rates of housing repossession.
The federal government has coped by raising taxes these have risen by more than a third since 1988 and by 11 percentage points of GDP between 1993 and 2003 and by squeezing investment and such luxuries as road maintenance (see chart).Behind the earmarked spending lie worthy aims: restoring Brazil's creditworthiness, promoting equality and fostering federalism.
One was to talk to other people, discussing how they coped with the pain, the fear and the night terrors.
