james blake doesn't have your typical tennis player profile.o years in harvard majoring in economics, named as one of the hottest batchelors b "people" magazine and top ranked on the tour for years. and james blake entered 22nd in the world. joins us this morning in studio. a lot of people remember that 2005 epic five-setter with agassi. could have gone either way. you made it back to the quarterfinals in the '06 u.s. open. where is you're tennis world taken you since? >> well, all over, doing a lot more, playing all over and still enjoying it, loving the game. but i dropped a little in the rankings lately. i've had a few injuries this year and most of the summer was out with a broken toe. feel great now. able to get in the pool, get on the bike. my legs feel strong. just a matter of getting out there and playing hopefully. >> harder to win now? ever before, some people say it's the best era in men's tennis when you think about obviously the nadal, federer, roddick even, is it harder to win now than ever before? >> it is very tough. i think it

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. >> that was james blake of itn reporting. >>> the british aren't just talking about how unhappy they are about the way the libyans handled ali al megrahi's return home. they may be prepared to do something about it. prince andrew, the duke of york, had been expected to visit libya and perhaps meet with moammar gadhi early next month. the idea was to promote trade. but now, there are reports that that visit may be off. >>> in afghanistan today, a day after the voting, both the leading presidential contenders, incumbent hamid karzai and opposition candidate abdullah abdullah, were both claiming victory. but abdullah also raised serious e vote. about the legitimacy of >> a lot of irregularities which have taken place should have been prevented and shouldn't have happened. so there are a lot of complaints about irregularities throughout the country. there are reports of rigging. >> the first results are expected tomorrow. >>> of course, almost everyone agrees that if the u.s. mission in afghanistan is to succeed, it will require more than just military might. afghanistan remains a deeply

james blake of itn reported on the ruling yesterday. >> reporter: leaving the house of lords after herlandmark victory. it's taken two years of legal battles and many disappointments to get here. >> ecstatic. of course i'm relieved. it's like -- it's like lifting a huge great weight. >> reporter: debbie has not been fighting for a change in the law. this is not a battle for her right to die. instead, she wants the law clarified. she suffers from multiple sclerosis and when the time comes she wants her partner to help her travel afraid to die but assisting a suicide is a crime and it's up to the director of public prosecutions to decide whether or not to prosecute, and until now, he's kept his reasons secret. but today the lords have ruled that will change. dpp must write and publish a new policy. >> the fact that he's now going to be looking at that and coming up with a policy, it means i don't have to make a decision while i'm still physically able to do -- to go to switzerland, myself or whatever. >> reporter: both high court and the court of appeal had previously ruled it was up to

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. >> we spoke to james blake yesterday.tter now at number five in the world than you were at one. this could be the great esther a for men's tennis. how much has the game changed in the six years since you've won the u.s. open? >> it's changed a lot. certainly when you look back at videos from eight or nine years ago, i feel like, you know, it's a little bit of a different level now. you know, i've had to work hard to keep up with the guys that keep pushing the sport, like roger and murray and so forth. so it's been a fun process, but it's certainly challenging. >> eric, obviously andy has been a part of babolat brand for a long time. racket, pure drive roddick, what's been the sales of that. can you see incremental increase when he plays at wimbledon final or, you know, wins a tournament? >> yes, i think such attention is great for sales, but more for our net worth of dealers which are 1200 in the u.s. and they call us to say, okay, we need more product. >> and you're a niche tennis company. you've been around for 134 year

blake. his 14th homer of the year. wainwrig wainwright. the thousand gets away. pujols moves to third on the year. he would score on matt holliday's sac fly. bottom nine. last chance for l.a. james loney flies out to holiday. cards win, 3-2. >>> d-backs and phillies. cliff lee is 3-0, since coming over in the trade with cleveland. he had five ks through five innings. got plenty of offensive support. here in the bottom of the fifth, ryan howard, off dan haren. three-run home run. his 31st. cliff lee would go the distance. a two-hitter. he struck out 11. he's 4-0, with the phils. phils take it 8-1. >>> red sox and blue jays. roy halladay on the mound for atlanta. jason bay takes him deep here. a two-run home run in the fifth. team-leading 27th for bay. in the sixth, the blue jayce threatening. they had the bases loaded in two and outs. but encarnacion flies out to end the threat. encarnacion went 0 for 4. batting less than .200. the red sox, lead the a.l. wild card by one game over the rangers. >>> jeremy and vinita, back to you. >>> there's a lucky winner for one of the biggest lottery prizes in history. >> a single winning ticket for the powerball jackpot was sold in south carol

james reese got a gassing. wasn't -- bad enough to disable him from combat. finished the war directing the ban in paris and making plans with ubir blake blake -- eubey . some of the guys were heavier than air, and the gas would like into your dugout. men would take shelter in no man's land. sometimes the shell holes were filled with gas, sometimes they were filled with dead bodies, sometimes they were filled with rats. there was a rumor going around on both sides of the trenches that there was a tribe of cannibals that lived in no man's land that were deserters from both sides. more men were killed by artillery fire. with an incoming shell, he would tighten his grip, flinch the deafening noise,, another shell would land, breath held again and the soldier would feel violation and tremendousors and the rain of pebbles and bits of things, and then he would exhale. shells as names, wooly bears and jack johnson, spoutses of blood and black smoke filled the air. sometimes the explosives were so constant the soldier couldn't tell them apart or identify them. shock after shock, called drum fire. sometimes the percussionists could hear pattern