Blake Falls, Ginepri Rises at Indianapolis


Posted on July 19, 2005

James Blake's comeback from injury suffered another snag Monday when the former Top 25-ranked American was defeated 7-5, 6-7(3), 7-5 by Frenchman Gregory Carraz in his opener at the ATP stop in Indianapolis.


"The conditions are good for me," Carraz said. "(The courts) are pretty fast. I feel the ball really well. I like this tournament."

Blake slid head-first into a net pole at Roland Garros in 2004, suffering neck and other injuries. With the loss Blake's win-loss record dropped to 12-14 on the year.

Other winners on the day of all-unseeded play were Wimbledon doubles winner Weslie Moodie (d. Lisnard), Russian Dmitry Tursunov (d. (Q) Lu), American Robby Ginepri (d. Ryderstedt), and France's Anthony Dupuis (d. Popp), all straight-set winners.

"Last year and the start of this year has kind of been a bit of a roller coaster for me," Ginepri said. "I'm looking forward to this summer. I've been working really hard and I'm anxious to see how far I can get."

Scheduled for Tuesday in Indy are Dlouhy vs. Bjorkman, Gambill vs. (WC) Young in an all-American match-up, (WC) R.Ram vs. Schalken, (1) Roddick vs. Tursunov, Ginepri vs. Spadea in an all-American, Morrison vs. Bastl, Delic vs. Phau, in doubles Hrbaty/Kiefer vs. (WC) Blake/Fish, (WC) Murray vs. Saretta, (7) Rusedski vs. Moodie, G.Lapentti vs. (Q) Mashiska Washington, K.Kim vs. Karlovic, Baghdatis vs. (Q) De Chaunac, Okun vs. (Q) B.Evans, and Falla vs. Goldstein.
Rankings
ATP - Feb 06 WTA - Feb 06
1 Novak Djokovic1 Victoria Azarenka
2 Rafael Nadal2 Petra Kvitova
3 Roger Federer3 Maria Sharapova
4 Andy Murray4 Caroline Wozniacki
5 David Ferrer5 Samantha Stosur
6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga6 Agnieszka Radwanska
7 Tomas Berdych7 Marion Bartoli
8 Mardy Fish8 Vera Zvonareva
9 Janko Tipsarevic9 Na Li
10 Juan Martin Del Potro10 Andrea Petkovic
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