{"id":147450,"date":"2025-09-16T06:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147450\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:14:07","slug":"who-won-when-retired-pro-james-blake-played-a-5-0-amateur-tennis-player-in-a-10-point-tiebreaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147450\/","title":{"rendered":"Who won when retired pro James Blake played a 5.0 amateur tennis player in a 10-point tiebreaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James Blake made it to number four in the world rankings during his 14-year stretch as a professional tennis player. <\/p>\n<p>Given that he never got beyond a quarterfinal at a Grand Slam, it\u2019s fair to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/james-blake-picks-out-the-point-at-the-us-open-which-he-regrets-the-most-in-his-career\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake will hold some regrets regarding his career<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/so-fortunate-james-blake-explains-why-simona-halep-was-given-miami-open-wildcard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake is a tournament director at the Miami Open<\/a> these days, and he remains a very respected figure in the world of tennis in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>It would appear that the 45-year-old still likes to get out there and hit some balls on the court. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, he took on the challenge of putting his pride on the line against an amateur player, and it proved a fascinating tussle. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2125987490-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"American tennis player James Blake\" class=\"wp-image-79570\" \/>Photo by Elsa\/Getty ImagesWhat happened when James Blake played a 5.0 amateur player<\/p>\n<p>Blake won 10 titles when he was a professional player and also took his doubles very seriously. <\/p>\n<p>The American won a further seven titles playing doubles and even reached the semifinal of Wimbledon. <\/p>\n<p>As part of an experiment done by the SwingVision podcast, Blake took on a 5.0 amateur player in a 10-point tie-breaker. <\/p>\n<p>It might come as a shock, but despite playing a player who was younger than him, it was Blake who ran out a winner by 10 points to one. <\/p>\n<p>The amateur player only secured his point when Blake produced an unforced error when winding up one of his famous forehands. <\/p>\n<p>For context, a tennis amateur with a 5.0 rating is considered advanced with outstanding shot-making abilities, excellent anticipation and consistent power, spin and depth on their strokes and someone who can regularly hit winners. <\/p>\n<p>What James Blake said to Roger Federer in 2015<\/p>\n<p>Federer handed Blake a defeat in the 2006 ATP Tour Finals, and in 2015, he admitted that he was a huge fan of the Swiss performer. <\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, with Federer still playing on the tour, Blake took to X to urge the player to continue playing after he beat Novak Djokovic in the ATP Tour Finals. <\/p>\n<p>He posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisworldusa.org\/tennis\/news\/Roger_Federer\/27977\/james-blake-roger-federer-please-keep-playing-forever-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>: \u201cFederer, please keep playing forever. So fun to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blake never perhaps scaled the heights that his initial potential promised when he burst onto the tour but he was a likeable character. <\/p>\n<p>The American is regularly around to give his opinion on the game in today\u2019s era and remains a very respected figure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Blake made it to number four in the world rankings during his 14-year stretch as a professional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6733,49,48,78633,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-147450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-james-blake","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}