Daniel Nestor Wins Third Doubles Title At French Open

Daniel Nestor

First Posted: 06/04/11 04:17 PM ET Updated: 08/04/11 06:12 AM ET

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- PARIS -- Canada's Daniel Nestor has done it again at Roland Garros.

The Toronto native and partner Max Mirnyi of Belarus downed Colombia's Juan Sebastian Cabal and Argentina's Eduardo Schwank 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4 on Saturday to win the doubles title at the French Open.

It was the third title in Paris for the 38-year-old Nestor, who won the event in 2007 with Mark Knowles and a year ago with Nenad Zimonjic.

The active player with the most wins (806) on the ATP, Nestor now owns seven Grand Slam doubles titles.

Cabal and Schwank were a totally untested combination, playing together for the first time. Cabal had never played an ATP-level match in singles or doubles before the tournament.

The unlikely opposition reached the title match against the second-seeded Nestor and Mirnyi by knocking out the world No. 1 pair of Bob and Mike Bryan.

"We feel fortunate to win today," Nestor said. "We got a bit lucky in the (58-minute) first set and that got us going.

"But these guys played tough, and we will see a lot more of them."

Nestor and Mirnyi won the tight opening set on an error from the South Americans but were taken to three sets for the only time in the tournament after Cabal and Schwank squared the match in the second.

The outcome in the third went down to the wire, with a double-fault from a nervous Cabal on match point the difference.

Nestor and Mirnyi came together as a team -- they had a brief run in 2000 -- in January after splitting from their respective partners.

Nestor now holds 73 career doubles titles.

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12:31 AM on 06/06/2011
He is NOT NATIVE TO CANADA. His name is Danijel Nesterovic, he was born in Serbia. He competes on the pro-tour for the Bahamas, he is an adopted Canadian. Get your facts right AHuff!!
yer
Stop the Alberta Taliban
02:23 AM on 06/06/2011
Yay Nestor! Nicely done!

Jake I'm sorry but you are mistaken. That is where he is born, but that's it. Many Canadians are not native to Canada. In fact, only natives are!!

Anyway! Canadians can also have dual citizenship, but in all news and wikipedia for that matter he's Canadian. He's also from Toronto, where I am, and I've followed him for years. He would have had formative years here or significant time here. UK citizenship doesn't require the need to be unique so even if he was UK status he can be both. However he identifies with Toronto and for that we support him whether or not he has other status is his decision.

The world is like a farm team, and when someone decides or family decides to be Canadian, then we benefit from that. Given the weather and such, I'm just glad people come ;)

Anyway, Toronto most certainly recognizes him as from here even if he isn't born here. 50% of Torontonians are not born here either. We're if not the most multicultural with 140 odd languages we are certainly very close.
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SimonLeigh
08:20 AM on 06/05/2011
Absolutely brilliant! Nestor's play is beyond belief. Doubles tennis is played throughout the world, singles rarely, yet the interest in watching world-class doubles is small and fading. Prize money is tiny and has just been reduced. Nestor and Mirni have to share a prize of $240,000, while the winner of the singles title gets $1.7 million. Even when stars like Nadal and Jokovich play doubles there's no great interest, not even in the doubles team that beat them!
12:32 AM on 06/06/2011
Nestorovic, Mirnyi, Djokovic. You're welcome.
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Adrian31
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04:25 PM on 06/04/2011
Fantastic, Daniel! Another tennis victory for the Canuck :)
12:32 AM on 06/06/2011
Not a Canuck.
yer
Stop the Alberta Taliban
02:25 AM on 06/06/2011
Yes he is.
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Adrian31
60% of the time, it works everytime...
04:07 PM on 06/06/2011
'Canuck' is another term for Canadian, which he is.