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Gilles Simon became the first player to advance to Saturday's semifinals of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships.

James Blake eyes the ball as it heads over the net during the second round match at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis, Thursday July 16, 2008.

Shahar Pe'er got the North American hard court season off to a winning start on Tuesday in California, defeating Melinda Czink of Hungary 7-5, 6-0 in the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford.

American James Blake looked rusty before he rallied to beat unheralded Israeli Dudi Sela 7-6 , 6-2 Tuesday in a first-round match at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships.

James Blake has been flirting with winning a title all season. The Indianapolis Tennis Championships top seed has reached two finals, one semifinal and five quarterfinals, but is still seeking his 11th career ...

Some of the world's best tennis players are in the Circle City this week for this year's Indianapolis Tennis Championships presented by Lilly.

INDIANAPOLIS: Former champions James Blake and Dmitry Tursunov lead the way into the summer hardcourt season at the ATP Indianapolis Championships starting Monday after the pullout of Andy Murray.

Top 10er James Blake is the only Top 25-ranked representative next week at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, where an American has claimed the title in four of the last five years.

James Blake's earliest tennis memory is sitting on a court in Yonkers, N.Y. watching his father, the late Thomas Blake, Sr., trade shots with his mother Betty.

American tennis player and World No. 8 ranked James Blake will formally announce today the launch of the Thomas Blake, Sr., Memorial Research Fund, which he established to support cancer research at Memorial ...

Every time top-10 tennis player James Blake scoots from one corner of a Grand Slam court to another, chasing down a seemingly unreachable ball, he figures his late father deserves at least some of the credit.

The Williams sisters march toward a third Wimbledon final showdown and Roger Federer's continued quest for a record sixth straight men's while reigning Roland Garros champion Rafael Nadal aims for a third ...

The 2008 Wimbledon Men' s semifinals are now set. Mad Professah correctly predicted Federer and Schuettler's quarterfinal wins.

Given past history, was James Blake's loss really an upset? Grading Tim Henman's BBC commentary If Nadal went straight from Paris to Wimbledon, skipped any grass court warm-ups, and lost to Ivan Navarro or ...

Maria Sharapova and James Blake both lost. Then Andy Roddick gets upset by Janko Tipsaervic.

The upset sniffles that felled Novak Djokovic on Wednesday, and nearly knocked over compatriot Ana Ivanovic, turned into a full-fledged Wimbledon flu yesterday.

WIMBLEDON: Slumped in his seat, James Blake struggled to explain another forlorn trip to Wimbledon.

'The artistic half of my brain just doesn't work all that well' Friday, 27 June 2008 Ranked eighth in the world and second in America, the tennis player James Riley Blake, 28, famously gave Andre Agassi a run ...

Bobby Reynolds' third-round loss left Wimbledon without an American in the men's singles draw.

Rafael Nadal has helped his nation cure its longtime aversion to lawn tennis, and he'll be one of three Spanish men playing Monday in the fourth round at Wimbledon.

Switzerland, France, Russia and Croatia have two players apiece among the final 16. Britain, which last won the men's singles title in 1936, advanced one man to the second week, as did Australia, Germany, Serbia and even the island of Cyprus.

And the United States? None.

The nation that produced Andre Agassi, Don Budge, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras and Bill Tilden finds itself in a collective slump. And there's no sign of a turnaround.