Music: {allcanada} NESTOR DONE AT WIMBLEDON AFTER LOSS IN MIXED DOUBLES SEMIS

Saturday, July 2, 2011

{allcanada} NESTOR DONE AT WIMBLEDON AFTER LOSS IN MIXED DOUBLES SEMIS

WIMBLEDON, England -- Canada's Daniel Nestor and Taiwanese partner Chan Yung-jan failed in a bid to reach the Wimbledon mixed doubles final as the pair lost 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to Austrian Jurgen Melzer and Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic.

The Toronto veteran had been in the chase for a third career mixed trophy after winning the Australian Open five years ago with Russian Elena Likhovtseva and earning another last January in Melbourne alongside Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik.

The Canadian and his men's doubles partner Max Mirnyi of Belarus lost in the second round last weekend.

The win took 65 minutes and was wrapped up as Melzer fired the team's eighth ace past Nestor, who missed all four of their break chances.

The exit from Wimbledon means that Nestor will be packing his bags to get ready for next week's Davis Cup tie in Ecuador, where Canada will be without the services of injured star Milos Raonic.

Though Nestor dropped just a point on his first two serves, Melzer and Benesova took charge early with a break of Chan in the third game. That margin was enough to carry them through the set in 34 minutes, sealed with an ace on set point.

Chan again proved a weak link, losing serve in the third game of the second on a winner from Melzer, a doubles champion at the All England club a year ago with German Philipp Petzschner.

The Austrian-Czech combination reached 4-2 while Nestor made a last stand with a love game for 3-5. But Melzer ended the evening in a game where Nestor missed on a break point chance.