Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life | James Blake | Talks at Google
90Top-ranked professional tennis player James Blake talks about his autobiography, "Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life", discussing his comeback after his unlucky 2004 season, which reached #15 on the New York Times Best Seller list in 2007.
One of the top American tennis players in the world, he reached a career-high ranking of #4 in the world in 2006 when he reached the final of the Tennis Masters Cup but lost to World No. 1 Roger Federer.
He is currently the 12th-ranked player in the world and the second-ranked American player behind Andy Roddick. He has been a professional tennis player since 1999, when he left Harvard to join the ATP circuit. He has since won 14 career ATP titles and is a member of the 2007 U.S. Davis Cup Championship team.
He was named 2005 ATP Comeback Player of Year and nominated for ESPN's 2005 "ESPY" Award for Comeback Player of the Year. He was in People Magazine's 2006-2007 "Sexiest Man Alive" issue.
A former All-American at Harvard University, he finished the 1999 season as the No. 1 collegiate player in country after his sophomore season when he was a 1999 NCAA single finalist.
This event took place February 20, 2008 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.