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Daniel Nestor FINALLY retiring. - Jarkko - 07-24-2018

One of the all-time tennis doubles greats and the first Canadian to win a Slam outside of mixed doubles, Daniel Nestor is finally winding down his career. Not surprisingly, he is going straight into the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame, even before his September retirement date. http://www.tenniscanada.com/daniel-nestor-to-be-honoured/ His September retirement comes just after his 46th birthday. He turned pro just shy of 19, all the way back in 1991!

Here's a clip both of homage to Nestor and a bit of joking around. :P



Although born in Serbia, he moved to Canada when he was 4 and grew up in the Toronto area. Never much of a singles player, he did still make the round of sixteen in Wimbledon in 1999 before losing to Pete Sampras. But even though he never won a singles titles, his 91 doubles titles is third in the Open Era behind the Bryan Twins, and his 95 total titles across categories (including four Mixed Doubles Slams) is tenth all-time even when factoring in singles. He has a career Olympic Grand Slam, having actually won his first "major" at the Sydney Olympics alongside Sébastien Lareau, who just the previous year had become the first Canadian to win a pro major, winning US Open Doubles with Alex O'Brien. But it was uphill for Nestor after that. He won his one and only Australian Open in 2002 with long-time partner Mark Knowles, then won the US Open in 2004 and first of his four French Opens in 2007 with Knowles before switching partners to pair with Serbia's Nenad Zimonjić. With Zeemo, he won both of his Wimbledon titles (2008 and 2009) as well as his second French Open, which would be the first of three in a row in Men's Doubles. He switched partners again to Belarus' Max Mirnyi and won two further French titles in 2011 and 2012. Add to this four Tour Championships: 2007 with Knowles, 2008 and 2010 with Zimonjić, and 2011 with Mirnyi. A nice touch; he won two Canadian Opens (in the Masters 1000 class), both in Toronto in front of his hometown fans. For the first you have to go all the way back to 2000, where he was with Sébastien Lareau after their success in Sydney. He also won with Zimonjić in 2008.

Overall, although his winning percentage on all four surfaces was pretty solid, he had his best success on clay, as evidenced by his four French Opens as well as five Madrid Open titles (two of which were on clay) and four Italian Open titles, and on the hard courts, as evidenced by three of his five Madrid Open wins, five Cincinnati Opens, and four Indian Wells titles.

He actually won all but one of his mixed doubles tournaments at the Australian Open, winning three Aussies with three different partners - Elena Likhovtseva in 2007, Katarina Srebotnik in 2011, and Kristina Mladenovic in 2013 - he also won Wimbledon with Mladenovic the following year.

And now the old codger is finally preparing to hang up his racquet. I think he's had a pretty good career, don't you? ;)