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4/8/09 11:16 PM | Johan Lindahl
James Blake's ranking is in free-fall mode after last year's finalist crashed out in his opening match on clay in Houston, a victim of Guillermo Cañas.
Blake, 28, once stood well inside the Top 10, but now finds himself in a desperate struggle to stay inside the Top 20. With finalist points from Houston (2008) set to fall off the computer and his chances on clay modest at best, the outlook is not rosy.
Blake had no answer for Cañas, whose game is apparently on the mend, as the Argentine world No. 133 carved out a 6-4, 6-4 victory. "It's hard to have confidence if you're not winning," said Cañas after snapping a seven-match losing streak dating back to the Australian Open.
"It turned on a few key points.... At times I beat myself out there," said Blake. "I made too many errors, but there's really no excuse for those errors, especially the ones I made at key times."
Blake won his last title in the summer of 2007 and has reached a single semifinal in 2009.
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