Canada’s Daniel Nestor has done it again at Roland Garros. The Toronto player and partner Max Mirnyi of Belarus downed Colombia’s Juan Sebastian Cabal and Argentina’s Eduardo Schwank 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4 on Saturday to win the doubles title at the French Open.
It was the third title in Paris for the 38-year-old Nestor, who won the event in 2007 with Mark Knowles and a year ago with Nenad Zimonjic. The active player with the most wins (806) on the ATP, Nestor now owns seven Grand Slam doubles titles. Cabal and Schwank were a totally untested combination, playing together for the first time. Cabal had never played an ATP-level match in singles or doubles before the tournament. The unlikely opposition reached the title match against the second-seeded Nestor and Mirnyi by knocking out the world No. 1 pair of Bob and Mike Bryan.