James Blake
James Blake
James Riley Blakeis an American retired professional tennis player. Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. During his career, Blake had amassed 24 singles finals appearances, while his career-high singles ranking was World No. 4. His career highlights included reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics and the quarterfinals of the Australian Openand US Open, as well as being the former American No. 1. His two titles for the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth28 December 1979
CountryUnited States of America
The ball's moving so fast these days that sometimes it's impossible for anyone to see, even a trained official.
That first set was definitely not his best tennis and I didn't expect that to continue but sometimes it's tough to pick your game up when someone has such a bad set and then they pick their game up, ... I really didn't want it to go to three sets because I knew how well he was starting to play and he can really get rolling. It was a great match and a great tiebreaker at the end.
Its amazing how good you feel after you win. Six months ago, I never would have had the maturity to come back. I got through it.
It was just a matter of showing everyone else I'm playing well. Everyone is saying that this is my welcome back, but I feel like I've been back for a while. And this is just the fruition of it all.
It was a fun crowd. I was down there in the first two rounds in the first few rounds he was kind of on the back court and hearing the crowd go crazy. It seemed like they were almost a soccer crowd because I don't think they were all real tennis fans at the beginning of these few weeks, but by now I'm sure they are. It really does help and make a big difference when you know you have people cheering for you.
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It's just amazing, ... I really couldn't have dreamed it to be any better at the beginning of the week.
It wasn't the cleanest of matches to be perfectly honest, but luckily five minutes after it's over it doesn't matter if it was the best performance you ever put on or you just scraped by. A win's a win. I'm allowed to play in the third round.
It was definitely unfortunate. He gave it his all. He did everything he could to win that match.
It was fun to compete; I generally don't have a lot of fun losing, but this was a whole lot of fun playing. This is incredible.
It was exciting for me to go farther than I ever have in a grand slam,
It's a lot of fun, ... Just being home, staying in my own bed, being around so many friends, people that go way back ... it's something that's very rare on tour. To be back so close to my hometown is a great feeling.
It makes it so much easier to be home,
It's like we are up 1-0 going into every tie.