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NOTEBOOK: Nestor-Zimonjic steal back top doubles ranking

Posted : Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:29:39 GMT
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London - Canadian Daniel Nestor and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic will regain the top doubles ranking from Bob and Mike Bryan after beating their hot rivals in four sets to claim a second straight Wimbledon title. "It's amazing, we started playing together to win Grand Slams," said Nestor, 36 and a trophy holder in all four of the majors over his career. "That's what we have done.

"Unfortunately, this year at the French Open I played a bad match in the semis. I thought we could have easily won that Slam, too," said the leader of the team which played the Paris final as well as winning Wimbledon a year ago.

"The way we play together, we give ourselves a chance to win every tournament and every Grand Slam. We have a good chance of winning on every surface, I think, which is nice."

The pair who first got together in late 2007, lead the ATP with six titles this season and three wins over the Bryans in finals.

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NOTEBOOK: Laver predicts a long reign for the grass of Wimbledon =

London - Rod Laver says Wimbledon may be the last great bastion of grass-court tennis in the world - but that's a fact he hopes never changes despite the limited number of events held on the speciality surface.

The Australian former great said that some things should never change. "Grass is difficult to keep in good shape, but Wimbledon is Wimbledon," added the special guest at the Wimbledon final between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick.

"It's been here forever and won't go anywhere," he said of the All England club. "But this is probably the last event that will have grass.

"If grass and serve-and-volley (style) do disappear, it would be a sad day," said the only man to sweep two calendar-year grand Slams of all four majors.

"I hope Wimbledon never loses the grass. And I can't see Wimbledon ever leaving grass. We need variety in tennis."

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