BRYANS AND NESTOR IN DUB FINALS

At the moment, Bob and Mike Bryan have a slim 31 point lead over Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic for the top honors in 2008. The winning team scores 40 points so the bottom line is whichever team wins today will go down in the record books as the season-ending No. 1 team.

For Bob and Mike Bryan there is much at stake as they would like to finish as the No. 1 team for a fourth consecutive year, which would also mean that they’ve ended five overall seasons in the top spot. The Bryans picked up their sixth Grand Slam trophy at the U.S. Open in September and kept their record of winning at least five titles a year going for a seventh straight year.

Nestor and Zimonjic, playing together as a regular team for the first time this season, have been in great form this week, dropping one set in four matches played. Their best stretch during the season was winning three consecutive titles at Queen’s Club, Wimbledon and the AMS Toronto tournament.

Nestor had played in nine year-end events in the past with former partner, Mark Knowles, winning the title in 2007. Zimonjic reached the year-end final in 2005 with Leander Paes and also qualified in 2006 as a pairing with Fabrice Santoro.

It’s likely to be a thrilling final encounter between these two talented teams who are tied at two matches apiece in previous meetings. They played three times this year and the Bryans won the AMS Rome final, but Nestor and Zimonjic won the AMS Hamburg and AMS Toronto finals.