http://tinyurl.com/ctmhve Monte Carlo: Nestor & Zimonjic Top Bryans To Clinch Masters 1000 Title Second seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic captured their second ATP World Tour title of the 2009 ATP World Tour season at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Sunday, beating top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan 6-4, 6-1 in just 48 minutes. The 36-year-old Nestor, who was appearing in his 99th career doubles final, improved to 57-42 in championship matches while his Serbian partner Zimonjic has now won 25 titles from 46 career finals. “We were both on top of our game,” said Nestor. “Everything was working. Once we got ahead in the first set at 4-4, everything started clicking and I think it was the best we have played as a team. We’re happy to win here. “We got off to a slow start [to the season] and I think the most important thing has been to get confidence by playing matches. Hopefully we can carry it through the next few weeks. It’s great to reach my 99th final, I’ve won a few and lost some too. It’s always nice to get a win.” Zimonjic, who captured the 2004 Monte-Carlo title with Tim Henman, said: “It is a great feeling when you play finals like this, especially against the No. 1 team. Obviously everything went perfect for us. I have to say it was a perfect match, I don’t think we can play better than this. We took all our chances and didn’t face a break point. To do it against the Bryans in the final is a great achievement. “We haven’t been playing great the last few weeks, I had some problems with my knee and I have to say the doctors and medical staff have really helped me a lot. Slowly my game has been improving this week. Hopefully we can continue to play well and build the rivalry with the Bryans that we had last year.” Nestor and Zimonjic, the reigning ATP World Tour Doubles Champions were contesting their first ATP World Tour final since capturing the Rotterdam title in February. Nestor and Zimonjic also reached back-to-back finals in Doha (l. to M. Lopez-Nadal) and Sydney (l. to Bryans) at the start of the season. The Bryans were appearing in their third final in six visits to the Monte-Carlo Country Club. They captured the title in 2007 with victory over Frenchmen Julien Benneteau and Richard Gasquet and they were finalists in 2005 (W/O vs. Paes-Zimonjic). The four-time former ATP World Tour Doubles Champion dropped to 28-4 on the 2009 ATP World Tour season, having appeared in their fifth tour-level final. They were coming off their ATP World Tour-best fourth title in Houston (d. Levine-Sweeting). Their three other titles came at Sydney (d. Nestor-Zimonjic), the Australian Open (d. Bhupathi-Knowles) – where they won their seventh Grand Slam championship – and at Delray Beach (l. to Melo-Sa). The American twins came into the week atop the 2009 ATP Doubles Team Rankings, 1780 points ahead of their nearest challengers – Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram. The 30-year-old California natives, who saved a match point in their semi-final victory over Dlouhy and Paes, were appearing in their 87th career final together (53-34 in finals). -- ─┬╮┐┌┌ ˙ ┐ ˙╭╮┐ ─┬╮ THE TWILIGHT SAGA │ │││ │ │ ││╮├╮ │ Twilight．New Moon．Eclipse．Breaking Dawn ┘ ╰╯╯ ┘ ┘ ┘╰╯┘┘ ┘ STEPHENIE MEYER Knockin' On Heaven's Door - my mind, my life...http://bvisgood.pixnet.net/blog --

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