Top seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic became the first repeat winners at the Barcelona Open BancSabadell in 27 years Sunday as they defeated Lleyton Hewitt and Mark Knowles 4-6, 6-3, 10-6 in the final of the ATP World Tour 500 clay-court tennis tournament.
The Canadian-Serbian duo, currently No. 1 in the 2010 ATP Doubles Team Rankings, adds a further 500 ATP World Tour Ranking points to its tally and shares €89,660 in prize money. The top eight teams at the end of the season will qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be held at The O2 in London from 21-28 November.
Nestor and Zimonjic clinched their 20th tour-level title together, following on from their title defence at last week’s Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters (d. Bhupathi-Mirnyi). They also lifted trophies in Sydney (d. Hutchins-Kerr) and Rotterdam (d. Aspelin-Hanley) and finished runners-up at the Australian Open (l. to Bryan-Bryan) and the BNP Paribas Open (l. to Lopez-Nadal) earlier in the season.
Last year, Nestor and Zimonjic went on from Barcelona to triumph at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome, where they will play next week. They completed the sweep of 2009 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 clay-court tournaments in Madrid.
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