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James Blake Weds Emily Snider

Originally posted 11/11/2012 09:00AM

Game, set, match!

James Blake is a married man. The tennis player, 32, tied the knot with publicist Emily Snider Friday night in Del Mar, Calif., the couple confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

The sunset ceremony took place at the beachfront L' Auberge Del Mar hotel with the bride, 37, donning an Ines DiSanto gown and the groom in a Hugo Boss suit.

The couple of four years had their 5-month-old daughter Riley Elizabeth (Riley is also Blake's middle name) head down the aisle with the bride's mother, Kathy Snider.

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James Blake on John Mayer: No High School Lothario

Originally posted 08/23/2008 07:00PM

Before he had game, John Mayer was a big gamer.

For three years in elementary and junior high school in Fairfield, Conn., the Grammy winner spent almost every afternoon playing Nintendo with his childhood pal, tennis star and Olympian James Blake.

"Just about every day he was at my house, and we'd play Nintendo games, like Joe Montana football, all the time," says Blake, who was in fifth grade when the two became best buds.

"John was pretty good, but I played a bit more than he did," Blake told PEOPLE at Heineken's Share the Good event in New York City on Friday, where he accepted a $10,000 check for the Thomas Blake Sr. Memorial Cancer Research Fund, his charity honoring his late father.

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John Mayer Hangs with Childhood Pal James Blake

Originally posted 08/22/2008 12:45PM

While his recent ex Jennifer Aniston did the town on Madison Avenue and the Met, John Mayer toasted tennis pro James Blake, his Connecticut classmate from Fairfield High at a Manhattan benefit for his charity, the Thomas Blake Cancer Research fund.

Honoring Blake's father, who died of cancer, the event was hosted by Men's Vogue and featured luxury watches.

"John is a watch guru. He tried on this skeleton watch, which is worth about $10,000, and even asked for our president's card," said Maurice Lacroix watch spokeswoman Fran Pennella.