PARIS -- Canada's Daniel Nestor and partner Max Mirnyi advanced comfortably to the French Open semifinals Tuesday, defeating Sweden's Robert Lindstedt and Romania's Horia Tecau 6-4, 6-2.
The victory, which took just one hour, puts the second-seeded pair into a showdown with the 38-year-old Toronto native's former partner.
Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic, who won the event with Nestor a year ago, advanced with his new teammate Michael Llodra after the fourth seeds eliminated Americans Scott Lipsky and Rajeev Ram 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Nestor and Mirnyi went about their winning business against the outclassed competition, breaking Lindstedt in the final game to coast to victory on the second of three match points.
Nestor's team beat Lindstedt and Tecau in the Barcelona quarter-finals a month ago, winning that one in quick straight sets as well.
While the experienced Nestor has been concentrating on one match at a time during the first week in Paris, the emphasis starts to shift subtly at the business end of the event.
"The title defence is always in the back of your mind," said Nestor, who won his 800th career match last week, the most among active players on the ATP.
"But you are concentrating on what you have to do on court, which is what we've been doing.
"I've played pretty well on clay over the years, the surface gives me more time. In doubles, the surface doesn't matter so much as in singles, at least for me. On each surface I feel like I do certain things well."
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