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Nestor and Zimonjic win Wimbledon doubles title

Sat 05 Jul, 08:38 PM


LONDON (AFP) - Canada's Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia won the Wimbledon mens' doubles title on Saturday with a 7-6 (14/12), 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 6-3 win over Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe.

It was the first Grand Slam title as a pair for Nestor and Zimonjic and denied Bjorkman, who will retire at the end of the year, a fairytale finish to his Wimbledon career.

Nestor and Zimonjic finished runners-up at the French Open last month while Bjorkman and Ullyett were playing in their first major final as a team.

The win was Nestor's fourth Grand Slam win after clinching three with Mark Knowles at the 2002 Australian Open, the 2004 US Open and the French Open in 2007.

Bjorkman has three Wimbledon doubles titles, with Todd Woodbridge from 2002-2004, in his nine Grand Slam collection while Ullyett won the 2001 US Open Open and 2005 Australian Open with Wayne Black.

"It's very exciting. It was a great match and we didn't want to give an inch," said Nestor, the first Canadian to win a Wimbledon title.

Zimonjic, who got married just before the French Open, was overjoyed at his first major title.

"It's amazing to be on Centre Court. You don't get too many chances to play there," said the Serbian.

"It's a great achievement for me and Danny."

 

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  1. CONGRATULATIONS, It was really good game, U desirve to won, and Zimonjic played so good with broken bone. amazing...Serbs are so proud, in 3 Grand slams this year we have at least one champ, AO Novak Djokovic, Roland Garros Ana Ivanovic, and now Wimbledon Nenad Zimonjic, Small country with great players....I cant waitle olimpics and US Open.....:)

    From Serbian, on Sun 6 Jul 4:30PM
  2. bravo,carevi...

    From Alexandra, on Sat 5 Jul 9:55PM
  3. Bravo Kralju.....3 GS sezone, i opet jedan pehar za srpskog predstavnika....SVAKA CAST:)

    From Serbian, on Sat 5 Jul 9:30PM
  4. bravo ziki majstore.cela srbija je uz tebe.srecan sam koliko i ti ti zbo tvoje prve grand slam titule u dublu(jesi imao u mix dublu ali nije isto kao i muski dubl).veliki pozdrav iz zemuna,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    From milenkovicsara08, on Sat 5 Jul 9:03PM
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