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8/24/10 3:32 AM | Ricky Dimon
James Blake destroys Pere Riba in the the New Haven first round on Monday afternoon. The match was exactly 19 times shorter than the Wimbledon epic between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.
James Blake made a lightning-quick statement on Monday at the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament, blasting Pere Riba 6-0, 6-1 in just 35 minutes. Blake, who had won only two of his last eight matches, treated his hometown crowd to a flawless performance in which he broke serve five times and never faced a break point.
To be fair, Riba was absolutely dismal and completely out of his league on a fast hard court. The 22-year-old Spaniard, who spends almost all of his time on clay, double-faulted four times without an ace and won a mere four of 18 second-serve points.
Blake and Riba would have had to play this match 19 times in order to equal the length of the longest match in tennis history, played by John Isner and Nicolas Mahut in the Wimbledon first round earlier this summer. That epic last 11 hours and five minutes, or 665 minutes.
Taylor Dent joined his countryman in the second round with a third set similar to the pair of sets in the Blake-Riba match. Dent pulled away from Eduardo Schwank for a 7-6(1), 4-6, 6-0 victory after exactly two hours of play.
Schwank was competitive in the first two frames, as the Argentine dropped an opening tiebreaker before bouncing back to take the second. From then on, however, Dent's hard-court superiority came to the fore. The big-serving American saved all three of the break points he faced and clinched the match in style with his fifth break of the night.
Next up for Dent is No. 6 seed Tommy Robredo, while Blake is set for a meeting with seventh-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov.
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