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	Olympic medal record
Competitor for Canada
Men's tennis

Australian Open	Winner (2002 w/Knowles); Finalist (1995, 2003 w/Knowles)
French Open	Winner (2007 w/Knowles); Finalist (1998, 2002 w/Knowles, 2008 w/Zimonjić )
Wimbledon	Winner (2008, 2009 w/Zimonjić); Finalist (2002 w/Knowles)
U.S. Open	Winner (2004 w/ Knowles); Finalist (1998 w/Knowles)

Daniel Nestor
Country	Canada
Residence	Bahamas
Date of birth	September 4, 1972 (age 37)
Place of birth	Belgrade, Serbia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb; 13.5 st)
Turned pro	July 29, 1991
Plays	Left-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	US$8,067,889
Singles
Career record	85–118
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 58 (August 23, 1999)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (1998, 1999, 2001)
French Open	1R (1997, 1998, 1999)
Wimbledon	4R (1999)
US Open	2R (1995)
Doubles
Career record	718–278
Career titles	64
Highest ranking	No. 1 (August 19, 2002)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	W (2002)
French Open	W (2007)
Wimbledon	W (2008, 2009)
US Open	W (2004)
	Last updated on: November 9, 2009.

Men's Doubles

Mixed Doubles

Grand Slam titles:

3 (with Knowles), 2 (with Zimonjić)

1 (with Likhovtseva)

Titles:

55

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Grand Slam men's doubles finals (12):

Partnering Fred Niemeyer (right), his Davis Cup and Olympics partner since 2002

Daniel Mark Nestor (born on September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Serbia, as Danijel Nestorović; Данијел Несторовић) is a Serbian-Canadian tennis player from the Toronto, Ontario, area.

In his career so far he has won 63 men's doubles titles, including a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the Tennis Masters Cup, and 5 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. In addition, Nestor won the 2007 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Elena Likhovtseva. This pairing also reached the finals of the 2006 Australian Open and the 2006 French Open. Nestor reclaimed the Men's doubles world #1 ranking, after winning doubles at Wimbledon. On July 4, 2009, Nestor and his partner, Nenad Zimonjić, repeated as doubles champions at Wimbledon. His 64 doubles titles makes him the most decorated champion active.

[edit] Tennis career

He won three Grand Slam doubles titles together with longterm partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas. The tandem won the 2002 Australian Open, the 2004 U.S. Open and the 2007 French Open. He and Knowles also reached the final of the 1995 Australian Open, the 1998 French Open and U.S. Open, the 2002 French Open and Wimbledon, the 2003 Australian Open and the 2005 Wimbledon He became the number one ranked doubles player in the world in August, 2002. Nestor's career high singles ranking is World No. 58, which he reached in August, 1999. In mixed doubles, he reached the 2003 U.S. Open final and the 2006 Australian Open final, as well as winning the mixed doubles event at the 2007 Australian Open with partner Elena Likhovtseva.

In the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Nestor and partner Sébastien Lareau won a gold medal in men's doubles tennis.

He has been a member of the Canadian Davis Cup team since 1992. He first came to prominence in the public eye that year by defeating Stefan Edberg in a hard fought match in Vancouver.

Nestor won his first doubles title in Bogotá, Colombia with Knowles in 1994. They defeated French Open champions Luke and Murphy Jensen in the final.

On July 5, 2006, he participated in the longest match in Wimbledon history, lasting 6 hours and 9 minutes.

Daniel parted ways with long-time doubles partner Mark Knowles after the 2007 U.S. Open, then started a partnership with Nenad Zimonjić.^[1] He won a doubles title with Zimonjić at the 2007 St. Petersburg Open. Nestor and Zimonjić advanced to the 2007 Paris Masters final as the second seeds, but lost 6–3, 7–6 (4) to #1 Doubles team Bob and Mike Bryan.

Knowles partnered Nestor once again, and won the 2007 Tennis Masters Cup. It was a fitting end for one of the most Successful Doubles teams to ever play the game. They defeated Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle 6–3, 6–2 to take their first Tennis Masters Cup title.^[2] This team doesn't plan to play with each other again. Nestor opted to be with Zimonjic instead because he wanted a partner with a big serve considering that shorter rallies would be more suitable for his aging. It was reported in the New York Times that "on the tour, it’s known that they (Nestor and Zimonjic) joined up, after years in the Top 5 with other partners, specifically to usurp the Bryans."^[3]

In 2008, Nestor and Zimonjić won the Hamburg Masters and Queen's Club Championships. They reached the final of the French Open, Indian Wells Masters and Rome Masters. He captured the 2008 Wimbledon title for the first time, winning 7–6, 6–7, 6–3, 6–3 over Jonas Björkman and Kevin Ullyett. Thus he managed to win a career Golden Slam.

At the 2009 US Open, Nestor was fined US$5,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct towards fans who were rooting for his quarterfinal opponents by cheering at Nestor's team double faults. ^[4]

[edit] Personal

His Serbian parents moved to Canada short of his 4th birthday in 1976 and settled in Toronto where he attended Earl Haig Secondary School as a member of the gifted athletes' program.

In July 2005 Nestor married Natasha Gavrilovic, his girlfriend of two years. They welcomed their first daughter, Tiana Alexis, on December 15, 2008, only two weeks after his doubles partner Zimonjić and his wife had twins.^[5] The couple now resides in the Bahamas.

[edit] Grand Slam Doubles

[edit] Australian Open

Doubles champion: 2002 (d. Llodra/Santoro)
Doubles finalist: 1995 (l. to Palmer/Reneberg), 2003 (l. to Llodra/Santoro)
Mixed Doubles champion: 2007 (w/Likhovtseva; d. Azarenka/Mirnyi)
Mixed Doubles finalist: 2006 (w/Likhovtseva; l. to Hingis/Bhupathi)

[edit] French Open

Doubles champion: 2007 (d. Dlouhy/Vízner)
Doubles finalist: 1998 (l. to Eltingh/Haarhuis), 2002 (l. to Haarhuis/Kafelnikov), 2008 (w/Zimonjić; l. to Cuevas/Horna)
Mixed Doubles finalist: 2006 (w/Likhovtseva; l. to Srebotnik/Zimonjic)

[edit] Wimbledon

Doubles champion: 2008 (d. Bjorkman/Ullyett), 2009 (d. Bryan/Bryan)
Doubles finalist: 2002 (l. to Bjorkman/Woodbridge)

[edit] U.S. Open

Doubles champion: 2004 (d. Paes/Rikl)
Doubles finalist: 1998 (l. to Stolle/Suk)
Mixed Doubles finalist: 2003 (w/Krasnoroutskaya; l. to Katarina Srebotnik & Bob Bryan)

[edit] Titles (64)

Legend
Grand Slam (5)
Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals (2)
ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (23)
ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (13)
Olympic Gold (1)
ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (20)

Titles by surface
Hard (37)
Clay (15)
Grass (8)
Carpet (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	September 19, 1994	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Mark Knowles	Luke Jensen Murphy Jensen	6–4, 7–6
2.	August 21, 1995	Indianapolis, U.S. (1)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Scott Davis Todd Martin	6–3, 7–5
3.	January 8, 1996	Doha, Qatar (1)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7–6, 6–3
4.	February 26, 1996	Memphis, USA (1)	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	7–6, 1–6, 6–4
5.	May 13, 1996	Hamburg, Germany (1)	Clay	Mark Knowles	Guy Forget Jakob Hlasek	6–4, 7–6
6.	August 12, 1996	Cincinnati, USA (1)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Sandon Stolle Cyril Suk	6–2, 7–5
7.	March 17, 1997	Indian Wells, USA (1)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Mark Philippoussis Patrick Rafter	7–5, 6–4
8.	May 19, 1997	Rome, Italy (1)	Clay	Mark Knowles	Byron Black Alex O'Brien	6–3, 4–6, 7–5
9.	April 20, 1998	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Olivier Delaître Stefano Pescosolido	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
10.	August 17, 1998	Cincinnati, USA (2)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Olivier Delaître Fabrice Santoro	6–7, 6–4, 6–4
11.	January 18, 1999	Sydney, Australia (1)	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Patrick Galbraith Paul Haarhuis	6–3, 6–4
12.	October 11, 1999	Shanghai, China	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	7–5, 6–3
13.	August 7, 2000	Toronto, Canada (1)	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Joshua Eagle Andrew Florent	6–3, 7–6³
14.	October 2, 2000	Sydney Olympics, Australia	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	5–7, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6²
15.	November 13, 2000	St. Petersburg, Russia (1)	Hard (i)	Kevin Ullyett	Thomas Shimada Myles Wakefield	7–6⁵, 7–5
16.	November 27, 2000	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6–3, 6–2
17.	January 8, 2001	Doha, Qatar (2)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Juan Balcells Andrei Olhovskiy	6–3, 6–1
18.	January 15, 2001	Sydney, Australia (2)	Hard	Sandon Stolle	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	2–6, 7–6⁴, 7–6⁵
19.	June 18, 2001	Halle, Germany	Grass	Sandon Stolle	Max Mirnyi Patrick Rafter	6–4, 6–7⁵, 6–1
20.	October 15, 2001	Lyon, France	Carpet	Nenad Zimonjić	Arnaud Clément Sébastien Grosjean	6–1, 6–2
21.	January 28, 2002	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Mark Knowles	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	7–6⁴, 6–3
22.	March 4, 2002	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Mark Knowles	Joshua Eagle Sandon Stolle	3–6, 6–3, [13-11]
23.	March 18, 2002	Indian Wells, USA (2)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Roger Federer Max Mirnyi	6–4, 6–4
24.	April 1, 2002	Miami, USA	Hard	Mark Knowles	Donald Johnson Jared Palmer	4–6, 7–6⁶, 6–2
25.	August 19, 2002	Indianapolis, USA (2)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	4–6, 7–6³, 6–4
26.	October 21, 2002	Madrid, Spain (1)	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	6–4, 6–3
27.	February 24, 2003	Memphis, USA (2)	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–2, 7–6³
28.	March 3, 2003	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Mark Knowles	David Ferrer Fernando Vicente	6–3, 6–3
29.	April 28, 2003	Houston, USA (1)	Clay	Mark Knowles	Jan-Michael Gambill Graydon Oliver	6–4, 6–3
30.	May 19, 2003	Hamburg, Germany (2)	Clay	Mark Knowles	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	6–4, 6–4
31.	June 16, 2003	London, England (1)	Grass	Mark Knowles	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	6–3, 6–4
32.	October 27, 2003	Basel, Switzerland (1)	Carpet	Mark Knowles	Lucas Arnold Ker Mariano Hood	6–4, 6–2
33.	March 1, 2004	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Martin Damm Cyril Suk	7–5, 6–3
34.	May 3, 2004	Barcelona, Spain (1)	Clay	Mark Knowles	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	6–3, 6–2
35.	August 9, 2004	Cincinnati, USA (3)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	7–6⁵, 6–3
36.	September 13, 2004	U.S. Open, New York	Hard	Mark Knowles	Leander Paes David Rikl	6–3, 6–3
37.	October 25, 2004	Madrid, Spain (2)	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–3, 6–4
38.	March 21, 2005	Indian Wells, USA (3)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Wayne Arthurs Paul Hanley	7–6⁶, 7–6²
39.	April 25, 2005	Houston, USA (2)	Clay	Mark Knowles	Martín García Luis Horna	6–3, 6–4
40.	October 17, 2005	Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	5–3, 5–4²
41.	October 24, 2005	Madrid, Spain (3)	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Leander Paes Nenad Zimonjić	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
42.	February 6, 2006	Delray Beach, USA	Hard	Mark Knowles	Chris Haggard Wesley Moodie	6–2, 6–3
43.	March 20, 2006	Indian Wells, USA (4)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 6–4
44.	May 1, 2006	Barcelona, Spain (2)	Clay	Mark Knowles	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–7⁵, 6–3, [10-5]
45.	May 15, 2006	Rome, Italy (2)	Clay	Mark Knowles	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	4–6, 6–4, [10-6]
46.	October 30, 2006	Basel, Switzerland (2)	Carpet	Mark Knowles	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	4–6, 6–4, [10-8]
47.	June 11, 2007	French Open, Paris	Clay	Mark Knowles	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
48.	June 17, 2007	London, England (2)	Grass	Mark Knowles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6⁴, 7–5
49.	October 28, 2007	St. Petersburg, Russia (2)	Carpet	Nenad Zimonjić	Jürgen Melzer Todd Perry	6–1, 7–6³
50.	November 18, 2007	Shanghai, China (1)	Hard	Mark Knowles	Simon Aspelin Julian Knowle	6–2, 6–3
51.	May 18, 2008	Hamburg, Germany (3)	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 5–7, [10-8]
52.	June 15, 2008	London, England (3)	Grass	Nenad Zimonjić	Marcelo Melo André Sá	6–4, 7–6³
53.	July 5, 2008	Wimbledon, England (1)	Grass	Nenad Zimonjić	Jonas Björkman Kevin Ullyett	7–6¹², 6–7³, 6–3, 6–3
54.	July 27, 2008	Toronto, Canada (2)	Hard	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–2, 4–6, [10-6]
55.	November 16, 2008	Shanghai, China (2)	Hard	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6³, 6–2
56.	February 15, 2009	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	6–2, 7–5
57.	April 19, 2009	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 6–1
58.	April 26, 2009	Barcelona, Spain (3)	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	6–3, 7–6⁹
59.	May 3, 2009	Rome, Italy (3)	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6, 6–3
60.	May 17, 2009	Madrid, Spain (4)	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Simon Aspelin Wesley Moodie	6–4, 6–4
61.	July 4, 2009	Wimbledon, England (2)	Grass	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6⁷, 6–7³, 7–6³, 6–3
62.	August 23, 2009	Cincinnati, USA (4)	Hard	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 7–6², [15-13]
63.	November 8, 2009	Basel, Switzerland (3)	Hard (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–2, 6–3
64.	November 15, 2009	Paris, France	Hard (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	Marcel Granollers Tommy Robredo	6–3, 6–4

[edit] Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slams
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	QF	F	QF	QF	1R	2R	A	QF	W	F	QF	1R	1R	SF	QF	2R	1 / 15	40–14
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	F	2R	QF	3R	F	3R	QF	SF	2R	W	F	SF	1 / 14	43–12
Wimbledon	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	1R	SF	3R	3R	3R	SF	QF	2R	F	QF	SF	A	SF	QF	W	W	2 / 15	48–13
U.S. Open	A	A	A	A	A	2R	QF	1R	3R	F	1R	QF	3R	QF	SF	W	1R	3R	QF	3R	QF	1 / 16	38–15
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	1 / 4	0 / 4	1 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	1 / 4	1 / 4	1 / 4	5 / 60	N/A
Annual Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	4–3	12–3	6–4	7–4	12–4	5–3	9–3	8–4	19–3	14–4	16–3	4–3	7–4	16–3	16–3	14–3	N/A	169–56
Olympics
Summer Olympics	Not Held			A	Not Held			2R	Not Held			W	Not Held			2R	Not Held			1R	NH	1 / 4	7–3
Year End Championships
Tennis Masters Cup	A	A	A	A	A	A	RR	RR	RR	F	A	A	A	NH	SF	SF	RR	F	W	W		2 / 10	22–16
Masters Series
Indian Wells	NME	A	A	A	A	LQ	2R	1R	W	2R	2R	A	1R	W	QF	SF	W	W	1R	F	1R	4 / 14	30–10
Miami	NME	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	SF	F	SF	2R	A	2R	W	QF	SF	SF	1R	QF	1R	1R	1 / 15	27–14
Monte Carlo	NME	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	2R	SF	QF	2R	2R	2R	W	1 / 8	9–7
Rome	NME	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	W	A	QF	1R	F	QF	QF	QF	QF	W	SF	F	W	3 / 14	29–11
Madrid	NME	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	QF	1R	A	2R	QF	W	QF	W	W	F	2R	QF	W	4 / 14	23–10
Canada	NME	1R	1R	1R	QF	SF	2R	F	1R	QF	2R	W	1R	F	2R	SF	QF	SF	QF	W	SF	2 / 20	31–18
Cincinnati	NME	A	A	A	A	A	F	W	QF	W	SF	SF	1R	QF	SF	W	SF	QF	QF	SF	W	4 / 15	36–11
Shanghai	Not Held																				2R	0 / 1	0–1
Paris	NME	A	A	A	A	A	QF	QF	QF	SF	SF	F	SF	QF	SF	QF	F	QF	F	2R	W	1 / 15	28–14
Hamburg	NME	A	A	A	A	A	1R	W	1R	A	QF	2R	F	QF	W	QF	QF	F	1R	W	NME	3 / 13	25–10
Masters Series SR	N/A	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 8	2 / 8	2 / 8	1 / 6	0 / 7	1 / 6	0 / 8	3 / 9	1 / 9	2 / 9	2 / 9	2 / 9	0 / 9	2 / 9	5 / 9	23 / 129	N/A
Annual Win-Loss	N/A	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	3–1	9–8	15–6	17–6	13–5	8–7	12–5	11–8	26–6	13–8	21–7	21–7	19–7	9–9	18–7	21–4	N/A	238–105
Year End Ranking
Ranking	739	510	389	285	117	75	10	11	18	7	27	13	10	2	7	1	8	5	3	2		N/A

A = did not attend tournament
NH = not held
NME = not Masters Series
LQ = lost in the qualifying draw

[edit] References

^ ATPtennis.com, The official site for men's professional tennis!
^ Tennis Masters Cup (2007-10-08). "Knowles & Nestor Part as Masters Cup Champions". Tennis Masters Cup. http://www.masters-cup.com/1/news/2007/doubles8.asp. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
^ Eric Konigsberg (2009-08-24). "Unseparated Since Birth". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30brothers-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
^ Federer fined US$1,500 for U.S. Open argument Taiwan News, September 219, 2009
^ Nestor, Zimojic Welcome Children ATPtennis.com, December 23, 2008

[edit] External links

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Daniel Nestor at the Association of Tennis Professionals

[0] ATPtennis.com, The official site for men's professional tennis!

[Knowles_.26_Nestor_Part_as_Masters_Cup_Champions-1] Tennis Masters Cup (2007-10-08). "Knowles & Nestor Part as Masters Cup Champions". Tennis Masters Cup. http://www.masters-cup.com/1/news/2007/doubles8.asp. Retrieved 2007-10-08.

[2] Eric Konigsberg (2009-08-24). "Unseparated Since Birth". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30brothers-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine. Retrieved 2009-08-30.

[3] Federer fined US$1,500 for U.S. Open argument Taiwan News, September 219, 2009

[4] Nestor, Zimojic Welcome Children ATPtennis.com, December 23, 2008

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