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Blake’s Run Ends at U.S. Open
Created: 9/8/2005 9:55:57 AM
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In the past year former Harvard star James Blake broke his neck, lost his father and suffered facial paralysis that threatened his tennis career.
But in the past two weeks he captured the hearts of the tennis world with a stirring run through the U.S. Open that included wins over French Open champion and No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal and No. 19 Tommy Robredo, spurred on by a raucous fan base in the self-styled J-Block.
Blake’s amazing run came to and end in the quarterfinals, where he came within two points of becoming the first wild-card entrant to make the U.S. Open semifinals since Jimmy Connors in 1991.
Blake fell to two-time U.S. Open champion and eight-time grand slam winner Andre Agassi 8-6 in the final-set tiebreaker of a 3-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 loss.
The match was dubbed an “Instant Classic” by CNNSI.com and an “Epic” by the Washington Post , and Blake’s amazing run has been catalogued throughout the sports world, including the Boston Globe and by ESPN.com .
To read George Vecsey’s recap of the match in the New York Times, click here (sign-up required), and to read Ian O’Connor’s column on Blake in USA Today, click here.
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Related Schools: Harvard
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Related Sports: Tennis
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