*The American has lifted his game with percentage play. 1. Improve your weaker side. Blake’s backhand has always been a liability, but in recent years he’s done a great job of shoring it up. I don’t ...

Paradorn Srichaphan had the perfect strategy for his final against James Blake: pound away at his opponent's backhand, considered the weaker of his strokes. The Thai native never expected his own ...

FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y., Aug. 31 -- He was going to make Lleyton Hewitt win it. After all that James Blake had slogged through, after a year swollen with controversy and a day stuffed with long rallies ...