{"id":69681,"date":"2016-01-28T04:32:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T09:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69681"},"modified":"2016-01-28T04:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T09:32:18","slug":"canadian-daniel-nestor-into-doubles-final-at-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/28\/canadian-daniel-nestor-into-doubles-final-at-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Daniel Nestor into doubles final at Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69682\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69682\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"Radek Stepanek and Canadian tennis player Daniel Nestor (Facebook photo)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radek Stepanek and Canadian tennis player Daniel Nestor (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MELBOURNE, Australia &#8211; Canadian Daniel Nestor will play for his second career Australian Open men&#8217;s doubles title.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native and his doubles partner Radek Stepanek dispatched Pablo Cuevas and Marcel Granollers 7-6 (11), 6-4 in semifinal action at the grand slam tournament on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The match took one hour 42 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Nestor and Stepanek will play Andy Murray&#8217;s older brother Jamie Murray and his partner Bruno Soares in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Nestor&#8217;s only other Australian Open men&#8217;s doubles title came in 2002, when he and Mark Knowles defeated French pair Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Nestor also has three mixed doubles titles at the Australian Open _ in 2007 with Elena Likhovtseva, 2011 with Katarina Srebotnik, and 2014 with Kristina Mladenovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia &#8211; Canadian Daniel Nestor will play for his second career Australian Open men&#8217;s doubles title. The Toronto native &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":69682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[9230],"class_list":["post-69681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-uploads","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}