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...stands,” Blake admitted, “I’d be cheering...
Which is why Blake smiled for that moment before the tiebreak, when the scoreboard knotted with sixes and threes. He surely wasn’t smiling after he squandered his 3-0 mini-break, and when Agassi planted that forehand in the corner and clinched a spot in the semifinal, Blake’s heart did drop...
...isn’t often, though, that a competitor as fierce and fiery as Blake will admit, “I generally don’t have a lot of fun losing, but this was a lot of fun to play...
...billed as the match of the tournament: tennis’ loveable elder statesman versus its rising star, the 35-year-old punk-turned-family-man versus the 25-year-old Blake and his triumph-over-tragedy tale...
Flushing Meadows had embraced Blake all tournament long, devouring the stories of his broken neck, his facial paralysis and his father’s death. And though he grew up in Connecticut and attended Harvard for two years before going pro, Blake was a local son, born in Yonkers and a longtime participant in the Harlem Junior Tennis League...