James Blake
Blake in 2013, photo by prphotos
Birth Name: James Riley Blake
Place of Birth: Yonkers, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 28, 1979
Ethnicity:
*African-American (father)
*English (mother)
James Blake is an American professional tennis player.
His father, Thomas Reynolds Blake, was African-American. His mother, Betty (Walker), who is white, was born in Oxfordshire, England, and emigrated with her family to the U.S. when she was 16 years old. James was raised in Fairfield, Connecticut.
James is the first tennis player of African-American ancestry since Arthur Ashe to break into the top ten rankings.
James is married to publicist Emily Snider, with whom he has two children.
He IS sexy. He looks his background. But was he a Protestant?
His father’s name was Thomas Reynolds Blake, and he died in 2004 from gastric cancer:
https://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2008/07/his-fathers-son/43639/
His mother, born in 1935 as Betty Patricia Walker, was born in Oxfordshire, England and emigrated with her family to the U.S. when she was 16 years old. A picture of the two of them in 2001:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/betty-and-thomas-blake-parents-of-tennis-player-james-blake-news-photo/97251537
Hope someone can run with this information.
wouldn’t be more accurate to change to “James Black (tennis)”? there’s another James Blake (musician).
I’m not a supporter of adding “profession” to page titles. Wikipedia has to do it because their system can’t have two pages with the exact same title.
Sexy. Can easily pass as Middle Eastern.
after seeing this comment i know you’re joking. if he had hair he would look like a normal mixed race guy
he’s so cute