Wimbledon, England (Sports Network) - Canada's Daniel Nestor and Serbian Nenad Zimonjic reached Saturday's men's doubles final at Wimbledon.The second-seeded tandem of Nestor-Zimonjic outlasted a ninth-seeded pairing of Czech Lukas Dlouhy and Indian Leander Paes, over two days, 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-1, 4-6, 8-6. The match was suspended because of darkness here on Thursday, with Nestor-Ziminjic leading two-sets-to-one and tied at 3-3 in the fourth set. Saturday's final will pit Nestor and Zimonjic against an eighth-seeded duo of Swede Jonas Bjorkman and Zimbabwe's Kevin Ullyett, who toppled the top-seeded American twin Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, in four sets here on Thursday. Nestor and Zimonjic were the French Open runners-up last month. Saturday's winning doubles team will split $450,000.
Four of the world's top-eight players --
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Andy Roddick -- were among
Wednesday's second-round winners at the ATP World Tour's season-opening Qatar
Open, a $1.11 million Australian Open tune-up. Nadal, Federer and Roddick have
combined for 19 Grand Slam singles titles.
Top-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva
cruised to a 6-2, 6-3 win Wednesday over New Zealand's own Marina Erakovic
in the second round of the WTA Tour's season-opening $220,000 ASB Classic.
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