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Bearded Blake Into 2nd Round in Madrid; Fish Out of Singles Draw; Venus Williams and Lepchenko Eliminated; Huber Advances Over M-Sands

James Blake rolled on to another clay court victory over Hanescu 6-2, 6-4. While closing out the match, unshaven Blake wore a face of quite determination and focus that could take him deeper in this draw. Next up for James is Ivo Karlovic who played three set match vs. Benneteau today.  The [...]

12May2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Fish and Querrey Advance in Madrid. Blake and Roddick Take To The Clay Tuesday.

Sam Querrey defeated Stepanek 7-6(2), 5-2 (Stepanek defaulted at 5-2)
Mardy Fish advanced to the 2nd round over Janko Tipsarevic 7-6(3), 6-4.
James Blake and Andy Roddick will take the court tomorrow.

11May2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Blake Defeates Davydenko In Three & Loses to Montanes in Final; Butorac/Lipsky take Doubles Title

James Blake came from behind against Davydenko finishing their semifinal match today after it was called on account of darkness yesterday.  Blake reached the clay court final with his impressive victory over Davydenko 6-7(3), 7-6(2), 6-3, but then had to play the final later in the day.
Blake nearly pulled off the championship, but lost in [...]

10May2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Blake To Battle Davydenko In Estoril Semis; Butorac/Lipsky & Kops-Jones/Spears Into Estoril Doubles Finals

James Blake defeated Serra 4&1 and will play Davydenko who defeated Mardy Fish 4&3.  The winner will meet the winner of the Montanes/Capdeville Semifinal.
Eric Butorac & Scott Lipsky advanced to the doubles final by defeating Cermak/Mertinak 3&3.  Butorac and Lipsky will meet #4 seeds Damm/Lindstedt in the final.
#3 seeds Raquel Kops-Jones & Abigal Spears are [...]

8May2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Blake and Fish Could Meet in Estoril Open Semifinal

#4 seed James Blake advanced over Federico Gil in Estoril’s first round 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 and today reached the quarterfinals by defeating Marc Gicquel 7-6(6), 6-2. Florrent Serra is next up for James Blake.
#6 seed Mardy Fish won his first round match vs. Teimuraz Gabashvili 3&4. After defeating Ivan Navarro in the 2nd [...]

7May2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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James Blake and Mardy Fish Advance in Rome

James Blake and Mardy Fish Advanced to the round of 16 in Rome’s Doubles Draw by defeating Simon Aspelin and Wesley Moodie 7-6(4), 6-1.  Next up will be #2 seed Nestor/Zimonjic.
After Mardy Fish’s loss to Verdasco 4-6, 7-5, 3-6, no Americans are left in the singles draw.

30Apr2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Fish Advances Over Andreev, Blake & Querrey Eliminated In Rome’s First Round

Mardy Fish defeated Igor Andreev 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(2) to become the lone American left in Rome’s singles draw.
Sam Querrey was defeated by Andreas Seppi 6-3, 4-6, 3-6 and James Blake was eliminated by Victor Crivoi 5-7, 3-6.

28Apr2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Bryan Bros, James Blake & Mardy Fish in Rome’s Doubles Draw

James Blake and Mardy Fish are on opposite sides of the doubles draw in Rome.  Could we see an all American Final in Roma?

28Apr2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued