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'''Daniel Nestor''' (born September 4, 1972 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. He became the world No. 1 ranked doubles player in the world for the first time on August 19, 2002 and the last time on August 27, 2012, for a total of 108 weeks. Nestor's career-high singles ranking is world No. 58, which he reached on August 23, 1999. He is currently 10th for most men's ATP titles in Open Era history. Over his career spanning almost 30 years, he has won 91 men's doubles titles (with 11 different partners), including a Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, four ATP World Tour Finals, and eight Grand Slam men's doubles titles attained with three different partners. In addition, Nestor has won four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles: the 2007 Australian Open with Elena Likhovtseva, the 2011 Australian Open with Katarina Srebotnik, and the 2013 Wimbledon and 2014 Australian Open with Kristina Mladenovic. His 91 men's doubles titles make him the third most decorated champion among doubles players. He was the first player in doubles tennis history to win every Grand Slam and Masters Series event, the Year-End Championships and Olympic gold medal at least once in his career, an achievement that has since been matched by the Bryan brothers. In January 2016, Nestor became the first doubles player in ATP history to win 1000 matches. From 1994 to 2016, he had a streak of 23 consecutive years with at least one men's doubles title. He was continuously ranked in the top 100 in doubles from April 1994 to April 2018, a total of 1134 consecutive weeks. He was named ATP Doubles Team of the Year in 2002 and 2004 (with Mark Knowles) and 2008 (with Nenad Zimonjić), and the ITF World Champion in doubles in 2002 (with Knowles) and in 2008 (with Zimonjić). Nestor also received the Tennis Canada male player of the year award in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. He retired in September 2018 after the Davis Cup.

 

 

Nestor won three Grand Slam doubles titles together with longtime partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas. The tandem won the 2002 Australian Open, the 2004 US Open and the 2007 French Open. He and Knowles also reached the final of the 1995 Australian Open, the 1998 French Open and US Open, the 2002 French Open and Wimbledon and the 2003 Australian Open. He and long-time doubles partner Knowles announced that they were parting ways after the 2007 US Open (the two won 40 titles together, including 3 Grand Slams, 1 ATP Year-End finals, and 15 ATP Masters 1000 titles), as Nestor began a new partnership with Nenad Zimonjić. Nestor and Knowles partnered once more at the 2007 Tennis Masters Cup after having qualified for the Year-End event as the top seed. Their finals win over Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle earned them their first Tennis Masters Cup title at the Year-End doubles tournament, and was a fitting end for one of the most successful doubles teams to ever play the game.