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Nestor, Knowles take second straight title in French Open
By Canada.com sports
Jun 18, 2007 - 1:51:14 AM

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LONDON (CP) — Canada’s Daniel Nestor and partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas completed a gruelling two-day tennis marathon Sunday, capturing a second title in as many weeks with a victory at Queen’s Club.

The French Open champions claimed their first win in more than a year over Americans Bob and Mike Bryan with a 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 victory.

The win came after Nestor, from Toronto, and Knowles completed four winning matches in less than 24 hours in the grass-court tuneup for Wimbledon.

Due to rain this week in west London, the doubles schedule got heavily backed up, with Nestor and Knowles finishing a second-round match and then winning a quarter-final on Saturday night over Britain’s Tim Henman and Lleyton Hewitt of Australia.

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