Blake off to winning start

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US number one James Blake shrugged off a two-hour rain delay to make a winning start to the tennis tournament on Sunday.
Blake beat heavy-serving Australian Chris Guccione 6-3, 7-6 (7/3), breaking in game eight and dominating the second-set tie-break in the first match to finish here.
Athens bronze medallist Fernando Gonzalez of Chile eased past China's Sun Peng 6-4, 6-4 while Russian fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko was facing Latvian Ernests Gulbis in the other early encounters.
World number eight Blake, who missed Athens 2004 during a traumatic spell in which he broke his neck and lost his father, will face either Dominik Hrbaty or Thomaz Bellucci in round two.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed - AFP)first published:August 11, 2008, 12:04 ISTlast updated:August 11, 2008, 12:04 IST
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