BLAKE IS THE LAST (AMERICAN) MAN STANDING

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 3, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

PARIS James Blake is as lonely as an Eskimo in Bali. Possibly a Democrat in Crawford, Texas. Maybe a typewriter salesman in a computer showroom.

Or what he is: an American male in the French Open. Th-th-that's all folks. James Riley Blake is the last of the guys from the New World trying to make a good impression on the Old World the only one left without mud in his eye.

The pain from Spain has concentrated mainly on a plain of amber dirt called Stade Roland Garros, where five of the seven US male delegates were scrubbed either by Spaniards or Spanish-speaking soundalikes. The sixth, Vince ...

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