Daniel Nestor

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**Daniel Nestor**

Country	Canada
Residence	Bahamas
Date of birth	September 4, 1972 (1972-09-04) (age 35)
Place of birth	Belgrade (then SFR Yugoslavia)
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	87 kg (190 lb/13.7 st)
Turned pro	July 29, 1991
Retired	Active
Plays	Left-handed
Career prize money	US$6,648,954
Singles
Career record:	85-118
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	No. 58 (August 23, 1999)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3rd (1998, '99, '01)
French Open	1st (1997, '98, '99)
Wimbledon	4th (1999)
US Open	2nd (1995)
Doubles
Career record:	639 - 256
Career titles:	51
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (August 19, 2002)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2002)
French Open	W (2007)
Wimbledon	F (2002)
US Open	W (2004)
Infobox last updated on: June 9, 2008.

Men's Doubles

Mixed Doubles

Grand Slam titles:

3 (with Knowles)

1 (with Likhovtseva

Titles:

Grand Slam men's doubles finals (10):

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

Competitor for Canada
Olympic medal record
Men's tennis
Gold	2000 Sydney	Men's doubles

Daniel Mark Nestor (born Danijel Nestorović on September 4, 1972 in Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Canadian tennis player from the Toronto, Ontario area. In his career, he won 50 doubles titles, including one gold medal in 2000 Summer Olympics, the Tennis Masters Cup, and three 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.

1 Tennis career
2 Personal
3 Grand Slam Doubles
4 Titles (51)
5 Notes
6 External links

[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.

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. Nestor 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 teamBob 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.

[edit] Personal

Born Daniel Nestorović in Belgrade, his 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 2004 Nestor married Nataša Gavrilović, his girlfriend of two years. The couple reside in Canada.

[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/Vizner)
Doubles finalist: 1998 (l. to Eltingh/Haarhuis), 2002 (l. to Haarhuis/Kafelnikov), 2008 (w/Zimonjic; l. to Cuevas/Horna)
Mixed Doubles finalist: 2006 (w/Likhovtseva; l. to Srebotnik/Zimonjic)

[edit] Wimbledon

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 (51)

Legend
Grand Slam (3)
Tennis Masters Cup (1)
ATP Masters Series (17)
Olympic Gold (1)
ATP Tour (29)

Titles by Surface
Hard (32)
Clay (12)
Grass (3)
Carpet (4)

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