James Blake withdrew from next week's Rogers Cup in Montreal, the second consecutive tournament he has been unable to play because of an injured foot suffered while playing for the U.S. Davis Cup team in Croatia.

According to a post on Blake's official site, he was set to meet with the doctors again on Wednesday and is still hoping to play in Cincinnati. Until Blake gets some good news on his foot, his status for the next couple of weeks is up in the air but it seems a lot more likely that Blake would request a wild card into the Pilot Pen than it did a couple weeks ago.

The only tennis Blake has played since Wimbledon came with a pair of losses in the Davis Cup tie against Croatia. That would leave him with just the Cincinnati event as preparation for the U.S. Open.

I found it a tad bit ironic that he announced his withdrawal from Montreal in the same entry on his web site that promoted a new brand of footwear the "Thomas Reynolds" Fila line named after his late father. I hope they weren't the tennis shoes Blake was wearing when he suffered his foot injury because something tells me that would not be a huge selling point if news got out that he suffered the injury while breaking in a new brand of tennis shoe.