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Sunday, October 31, 2010

{allcanada} Top-seeded Nestor, Zimonjic win in Vienna

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VIENNA, Austria -- The top-seeded duo of Canada's Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic defeated Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski to win the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy on Sunday.

Nestor and Zimonjic needed 77 minutes to complete the 7-5, 3-6, 10-5 win over their Polish rivals. It was their first tournament victory since the French Open.

It was also the 70th career doubles title for Nestor, 38, who became the fifth men's player to reach the plateau.

"It's amazing," said Nestor. "Fortunately I have a great partner who is also playing well. Hopefully I can get a few more (titles) over the next few years."

Nestor and Zimonjic will end their three-year run as partners at the World Tour Finals in London later this year. Nestor, of Toronto, will play with Max Mirnyi of Belarus in 2011.

Nestor and Zimonjic recovered from an early break in the first set Sunday, then secured it with a second break in the final game. The Poles powered back in the second, picking up a break to go ahead 4-2 before levelling the match.

In the match tiebreaker, Nestor and Zimonjic converted their first match point for the victory. The win came after the Polish duo had knocked them out of tournaments in Beijing and Shanghai earlier in the month.

"We finally got some revenge against those guys," said Nestor. "That's always nice. Nenad and I are glad to finally win another trophy.

"We want to go out in style and we still have three tournaments left this season. It's a great feeling to be in the winner's circle again."

Nestor and Zimonjic improved to 6-3 in tournament finals this year and 48-16 overall. They defended titles at Monte Carlo and Barcelona after winning at Sydney in January and Rotterdam in February.

"Hopefully we can carry this into the (World Tour) Finals," said Nestor. "We had a not-so-great performance there last year."

The duo went 1-2 at the 2009 event to exit in the group stage.

Nestor previously won at Vienna in 2005 with former partner Mark Knowles. Zimonjic won a decade ago with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.