LOS ANGELES — Tobias Kamke of Germany ousted James Blake of the US 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (4) in the first round of the Farmers Classic at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Tuesday. Blake lost the first four games of the match and was down 3-1 in the second set. He won five games and jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the final set, only to have Kamke fight back. Kamke won four of the next five games to pull even at 5-5. He then won the final five points of the tiebreaker to hand the 32-year-old Blake his eighth loss in nine matches this year. Kamke's second-round opponent will be No. 6 seed Marinko Matosevic who beat Australian compatriot Chris Guccione 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Blake joined a list of fellow Americans who were eliminated: Jesse Levine, Nicolas Meister and Bradley Klahn. Levine was beaten 6-3, 6-4, by countryman Michael Russell, who at 34 is the oldest player in the field. Russell will next meet top-seeded Frenchman Benoit Paire. Meister, making his ATP Tour debut as a qualifier, fell to No. 5 seed Xavier Malisse of Belgium 6-4, 6-1. Malisse's next opponent is Australian Matthew Ebden, who edged German Michael Berrer 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4). Klahn, also a qualifier, lost to Paolo Lorenzi of Italy 6-4, 3-6, 6-0. Lorenzi will next meet No. 4-seeded Frenchman Nicolas Mahut. Igor Andreev of Russia ousted Dudi Sela of Israel 7-6 (4), 6-4, and his second-round opponent will be Lithuanian qualifier Ricardas Berankis, who upset German No.7-seed Bjorn Phau 7-6 (8), 6-4. Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands beat American Steve Johnson 7-6 (4), 6-3, setting up a match with No. 2 seed Sam Querrey of the US. Gulbis beats Haider-Maurer In Austria, Ernests Gulbis of Latvia saved a match point before beating Andreas Haider-Maurer of Austria 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the first round of the Bet-at-Home Cup Tuesday. Philipp Oswald of Austria won his first match on the ATP tour after rallying to beat Daniel Brands of Germany 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Oswald next plays defending champion Robin Haase of the Netherlands. Pavol Cervenak of Slovakia double-faulted 12 times but still defeated Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo of Spain 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3. Cohen takes down Pervak In Azerbaijan, Julia Cohen of the US upset top-seeded Ksenia Pervak, who withdrew from the match with the score 6-4, 3-6, 3-2 in the first round of the Baku Cup. Pervak, of Kazakhstan, was carried off court on a stretcher Tuesday after collapsing from heat exhaustion. Second-seeded Alexandra Panova of Russia defeated Sacha Jones of Australia in straight sets, 7-5, 7-6 (7) in the WTA outdoor hard-court event at Baku Tennis Academy. Fifth-seeded Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia defeated Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. — Agencies
