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Rafael Nadal withdrew Monday from upcoming the Masters Cup in Shanghai, making Gilles Simon as the next choice to fill out the eight-man draw.  Simon’s advantage?  He had 356 ATP Race points to James Blake’s 355.  
Blake’s web site seems hopeful that another player might withdraw so he could get the call to Shanghai.
Andy Roddick, who [...]

Andy Roddick skipped out on the trip to Beijing for the Olympics this summer, but he’ll be in Shanghai for the Masters Cup after his 6-3, 7-5 win over Gilles Simon in the PNB Paribas Masters in Paris on Thursday.  James Blake, who beat Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday still has a chance to [...]

     Spain triumphed over the U.S. Davis Cup team last month in a historic Madrid bullring packed with more than 20,000 flag-waving fans — a Hemingwayesque scene that made for a fierce home-court advantage.
     The United States Tennis Association (USTA) needs to break out of its predictable Davis Cup hosting rut and also do something dramatic March 6-8 when Switzerland, and most likely Roger Federer, come calling in the first [...]

James Blake has pulled out of the Davis Cup match against Spain in Madrid Sept. 19-21, and team Captain Patrick McEnroe has replaced him with Sam Querrey — not the higher ranked Mardy Fish.
“James is just physically and mentally exhausted after a grueling summer,” McEnroe said. “He said he needed a break and we [...]

The top four ranked Americans — No. 8 Andy Roddick, No. 9 James Blake, No. 35 Mardy Fish and No. 53 Sam Querrey — have reached the third round of the Open, leaving behind six compatriots who lost in the second round.
Collectively, the 19 American men who started the tournament are 14-15 in the Open, [...]

It has been five years since Andy Roddick cradled the U.S. Open cup during that short window between Sampras’ retirement and Federer’s rise. In fact, it has been five long years since any American man has won any Grand Slam.
It seems like long odds that Roddick or James Blake or any of the other [...]

Three American men qualified for the U.S. Open this week, putting a total of 19 U.S. players into the men’s singles draw.
Qualifiers were Ryler De Heart, who won his final round in the qualies in a third-set tiebreaker, Ryan Sweeting and Robert Kendrick.  They join six American wildcards Brendan Evans, Scoville Jenkins, Amer Delic, Jesse [...]

When I first heard earlier in the year that Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish were passing on playing in the Olympics, I was shocked that they would skip out on another chance to participate in the games. But after considering the crowded ATP schedule consisting of four Grand Slams, nine Masters tournaments and the [...]

One-hundred and four of the 128 men who will compete in this year’s U.S. Open were announced Wednesday, including nine Americans. All of the bids were based on rankings: Americans who received direct entry into this year’s tournament are No. 6 Andy Roddick of Austin, Texas; No. 8 James Blake of Fairfield, Conn.; No. [...]

The two American men in the top of the ATP world ladder, No. 6 Andy Roddick and No. 8 James Blake, did not change in rankings released after Wimbledon, although there were major moves farther down. The biggest increase was by Bobby Reynolds whose third-round performance at Wimbledon pushed him up 11 spots to [...]