Canadian Nestor reaches Swiss Indoors doubles final
Last Updated: Saturday, November 7, 2009 | 2:10 PM ET
The Canadian Press
Toronto's Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic moved into their first ATP final in nearly three months Saturday with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-1) win over Christopher Kas of Germany and Viktor Troicki of Serbia at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basel.
Nestor and Zimonjic will be playing their 10th final of a season in which they won seven events in row starting last February in Rotterdam.
The last final for the duo was in August at the Cincinnati Masters, where they beat Americans Bob and Mike Bryan.
But a dry spell followed.
Nestor and Zimonjic have finally managed to lift their game heading to the end of a long ATP season after suffering opening defeats at their last three events in Vienna, Shanghai and Beijing following a U.S. Open quarter-final showing.
"It seems to be finals or nothing for us," Nestor said. "We've had some tough draws in the past month. We had match points last week and couldn't convert.
"These teams are all tough. But we seem to have found our form again and we're playing well again. You win a few matches and you gain confidence like always. We're looking forward to winning our first title here."
Nestor, then playing with Mark Knowles, won the Basel event in 2003 and 2006.
