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Monte Carlo: Nestor & Zimonjic Top Bryans To Clinch Masters 1000 Title
Second seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic captured their second ATP World
Tour title of the 2009 ATP World Tour season at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
on Sunday, beating top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan 6-4, 6-1 in just 48 minutes.
The 36-year-old Nestor, who was appearing in his 99th career doubles final,
improved to 57-42 in championship matches while his Serbian partner Zimonjic
has now won 25 titles from 46 career finals.
“We were both on top of our game,” said Nestor. “Everything was working.
Once we got ahead in the first set at 4-4, everything started clicking and I
think it was the best we have played as a team. We’re happy to win here.
“We got off to a slow start [to the season] and I think the most important
thing has been to get confidence by playing matches. Hopefully we can carry it
through the next few weeks. It’s great to reach my 99th final, I’ve won a few
and lost some too. It’s always nice to get a win.”
Zimonjic, who captured the 2004 Monte-Carlo title with Tim Henman, said: “It
is a great feeling when you play finals like this, especially against the No. 1
team. Obviously everything went perfect for us. I have to say it was a perfect
match, I don’t think we can play better than this. We took all our chances and
didn’t face a break point. To do it against the Bryans in the final is a great
achievement.
“We haven’t been playing great the last few weeks, I had some problems with
my knee and I have to say the doctors and medical staff have really helped me a
lot. Slowly my game has been improving this week. Hopefully we can continue to
play well and build the rivalry with the Bryans that we had last year.”
Nestor and Zimonjic, the reigning ATP World Tour Doubles Champions were
contesting their first ATP World Tour final since capturing the Rotterdam title
in February. Nestor and Zimonjic also reached back-to-back finals in Doha (l.
to M. Lopez-Nadal) and Sydney (l. to Bryans) at the start of the season.
The Bryans were appearing in their third final in six visits to the Monte-Carlo
Country Club. They captured the title in 2007 with victory over Frenchmen
Julien Benneteau and Richard Gasquet and they were finalists in 2005 (W/O vs.
Paes-Zimonjic).
The four-time former ATP World Tour Doubles Champion dropped to 28-4 on the
2009 ATP World Tour season, having appeared in their fifth tour-level final.
They were coming off their ATP World Tour-best fourth title in Houston (d.
Levine-Sweeting). Their three other titles came at Sydney (d. Nestor-Zimonjic),
the Australian Open (d. Bhupathi-Knowles) – where they won their seventh Grand
Slam championship – and at Delray Beach (l. to Melo-Sa).
The American twins came into the week atop the 2009 ATP Doubles Team Rankings,
1780 points ahead of their nearest challengers – Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram.
The 30-year-old California natives, who saved a match point in their semi-final
victory over Dlouhy and Paes, were appearing in their 87th career final
together (53-34 in finals).
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