Blake tosses used shoes into the charity auction mix

 

NOTEBOOK: Blake tosses used shoes into the charity auction mix

13:50:43 Central European Time

James Blake has donated a pair of used shoes - but not just any pair - as tennis efforts to help Katrina hurricane victims gather pace at the U.S. Open.

Officials are expecting the 2010 christian louboutin shoes sale of Blake's autographed shoes worn during Wednesday's dramatic five-set quarter-final loss to Andre Agassi to fetch a top price in an online charity auction for victim relief in New Orleans and the American south.

Defeated Lindsay Davenport, who lost to Elena Dementieva in the last eight, donated her autographed Wilson racquet and Nike 　louboutin shoes to benefit the American Red Cross hurricane relief efforts.

Auction items are on display at TennisKatrina and can be accessed directly or via the official sites ATPtennis and WTATour.

Other players previously donating autographed memorabilia include: the Bryan brothers , Kim Clijsters , Rafael Nadal , Venus Williams , Andy Roddick , Serena Williams , Dominik Hrbaty , Mary Pierce and Justine Henin-Hardenne plus Agassi, Robby Ginepri and Amelie Mauresmo.

The Open itself, which ends on Sunday, is donating half a million dollars from gate proceeds.

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International officials hope to take a more hands-on approach to administering anti-doping controls in tennis, according to ITF boss Francesco Ricci-Bitti.

The ranking administrator said that his organisation is aiming to step up its involvement in the ongoing battle against cheating to hopefully avoid any presumed conflict of interest between players and the ATP tour sanctioning body.

The Italian told the Argentine press: "It does not seem to me appropriate that a union of players should be the one to judge them in cases of doping."

Ricci Bitti insists that concord between the ITF and ATP has nothing to do with the most recent in a string of Argentine doping cases, this one producing a two-year ban for Guillermo Canas. "We've been talking for a long time. It's very sad what happened , but unfortunately we can do nothing."

Ricci-Bitti expects the ATP to sign off on the new supervisory arrangement. "The change will be immediate and the methodology will allow a clearer mechanism for everyone," he added. dpa bs gb