Canada’s Nestor and Serbian partner Zimonjic advance to French Open quarters
PARIS – Canadian Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic reached the quarter-finals of the French Open on Saturday with a 6-4, 7-5 defeat of 13th seeds Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands and Romania’s Horia Tecau.
The victory in just under 90 minutes puts the veteran third seeds up against the winner from Austrian Jurgen Melzer and Spain’s Feliciano Lopez versus Croatia’s Marin Draganja and Florin Mergea of Romania.
Tecau proved to be the weak link, with the Romanian losing serve once per set as Nestor and Zimonjic won their 11th consecutive match on clay.
The pair came to Paris with trophies in Madrid and Rome; Nestor has won the French doubles title four times since 2007.
Tecau was broken in the ninth game of the first set and in the penultimate game of the second, with the 41-year-old Nestor from Toronto serving out the win and Zimonjic clinching victory with a poached cross-court winner.
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