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Country:    United States of America
Birth Date:    28 December 1979
Birth Place:    Yonkers, New York, USA
Residence:    Tampa, Florida, USA
Height:    6 ft. 1 in. ( 1.85 metres )
Weight:    183 lbs. ( 83.2 kilos )
Plays:    Right
Turned Pro:    1999

 James Blake was born on December 28, 1979, in Yonkers, New York, into a tennis family. His father, Thomas, and his mother, Betty, met on the public tennis courts of New York. Thomas Blake learned to play tennis during his tenure in the United States Air Force, while Betty Blake picked up the game as a grade school student in Banbury, England. The Blakes played tennis regularly at the 369th Armory in Harlem and they took their young children with them. By the age of five James began playing tennis with his older brother Thomas, Jr. When Blake was six years old, his family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut. His father worked as a salesperson for 3M Worldwide, a technology company, while his mother worked as a secretary at the local tennis club. Both Thomas and James took lessons at the Trumbull Tennis Club in Connecticut. It was at this club that Blake met Brian Barker, who began coaching Blake at age 12.

James Blake

 James Blake

James Blake

 James Blake

 James Blake