Monday, February 15, 2010

NESTOR IN NETHERLANDS

image Toronto's Daniel Nestor and his Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic won their second straight ABN Amro doubles title Sunday.

The pair defeated Australian Paul Hanley and Simon Aspelin of Sweden 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (10-7 match tiebreak).

"Nenad and I played well," said Nestor, 37, who will head back across the Atlantic for a brief break before returning to play in the Dubai tournament starting Feb. 22.

"We're showing what we can do so far this season, I hope we can keep up this good form. It was a difference of just a few points today."

Nestor also won the ABN Amro title in 2002 when he was paired with Mark Knowles of the Bahamas.

Sunday's victory gave Nestor and Zimonjic their second trophy from three events so far in 2010 and they had won 10 of their 11 finals going into Rotterdam. The pair have now claimed 16 titles since 2008.

Nestor booked the 65th trophy of his career, including the last two honours at Wimbledon with Zimonjic.

They're ranked No. 1 in the world but American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan are hot on their heels.

They lost to the Bryan brothers two weeks ago at the Australian Open final.

TSN

Tuesday, February 2, 2010