James Blake News

Last year, when Roger Federer failed to win a medal at the Beijing Olympics, I asked in a blog post whether he, along with Tiger Woods and Thierry Henry, may somehow have offended the gods of sport by appearing together in this television ad for Gillette: At the time evidence indicated strongly that some sort of curse was associated with the ad ...

On Monday I phoned Patrick McEnroe, captain of the U.S. Davis Cup team, and asked if it were true that Andy Roddick was retiring from competitive tennis.

The 2009 Davis Cup Final begins Friday in Barcelona as Spain plays host to the Czech Republic.

Woods shoots 66 for lead in Australia: Tiger Woods has opened the Australian Masters with a 6-under 66 in Melbourne, putting him atop the leaderboard in his first appearance Down Under in 11 years.

The Williams sisters were conspicuous by their absence on Sunday when Italy completed a shutout of the United States in Reggio Calabria, Italy, to win its second Fed Cup title in four years.

Kiara Buford scored 19 points to lead the University of Minnesota women's basketball team to a 77-45 exhibition victory over Minnesota-Duluth on Sunday at Williams Arena.

Top seeds Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic highlighted Friday's quarterfinal winners at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament.

James Blake failed to impress in his first European indoor event of what could be a brief end-of-season, with the former Top 10 player eliminated 7-6 , 6-7 , 6-4 in the first round of the Swiss Indoors Wednesday by Jeremy Chardy.

Jennifer welcomes in Bonnie D. Ford to give some insight on Andre Agassi's recent confessions and Serena Williams ending the year number one.

Second-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon was among Friday's quarterfinal winners, while former champion Arnaud Clement upended top-seeded fellow Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Lyon Tennis Grand Prix.

Top-seeded Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon were easy second-round winners Thursday at the Lyon Tennis Grand Prix.

Former world No. 1 Maria Sharapova, on the mend from a shoulder injury that sidelined her earlier this year, has scheduled a return appearance to Memphis.

Fabian Hambuechen of Germany, the favorite for the men's all-around title, has been knocked out of the world gymnastics championships this week in London after rupturing a ligament in his left foot.

ABU DHABI // Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the world's top two tennis players, head a talented cast list for the second staging of the Capitala World Championship exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi over the New Year.

SHANGHAI: Luckless Juan Martin Del Potro suffered his second Asian collapse on Wednesday with the newly-crowned US Open champion failing to finish his opening match at the Shanghai Masters.

US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro, however, joined the growing casualty list at the $3.24 million tournament, retiring because of a wrist injury while 7-5, 2-1 down to Austrian Jurgen Melzer.

SHANGHAI - James Blake rallied to defeat Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 3-6, 7-6 , 6-3 Monday in the first round of the Shanghai Masters.

James Blake is a perfect 1-0 against Rafael Nadal in Shanghai. Will that have any meaning in their seventh career encounter later today at the Shanghai Masters? Maybe, maybe not.

Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick was forced to retire from his second-round match due to a left knee injury Tuesday at the $5.25 million Shanghai ATP Masters.

Spaniard Tommy Robredo has amassed a 42-22 match record this year. American James Blake withstood 27 aces from the racquet of Ivo Karlovic to beat the 6'10" Croatian 3-6, 7-6 , 6-4 in one hour and 55 minutes Monday, for a place in the second round against top seed Rafael Nadal at the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 - " Presented by Rolex.