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Top-seeded Blake bounced from Legg Mason

Associated Press

Thursday, August 3, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Top-seeded James Blake became the latest American to drop out of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, falling 7-6 (6), 7-5 (5) to Russia's Marat Safin in a third-round match delayed for more than two hours by rain Thursday night. Safin, who advanced to the quarterfinals of a tournament for the first time since the Valencia event in April, won the first three tie-break points in the second set, then recovered from a double-fault on match point to slip a shot off the net, past a f ...

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