Leander Paes - Daniel Nestor Advance in Queen's Club Tennis Tournament
Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor won their opening round Queen's Club tennis tournament match beating Serbian Viktor Troicki and Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6 (3), 3-6, 10-7.
Indo-Canadian pair of Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor won their opening round Queen's Club tennis tournament match beating Serbian Viktor Troicki and Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6 (3), 3-6, 10-7 here on Monday.
The match was a fiercely contested affair that took one hour and 21 minutes to decide on a winner at the 1,574,640 euros grass court event. (Nadal Crashes Out at Queen's)
Paes and Nestor began the match aggressively but they were matched at every step by the Serbian-SPaniard duo. Both teams found it difficult to break the other's serve and surge ahead at Court 1.
The first set extended to a tie-break and the veteran experience clinched the tie-breaker to go one set up.
The first set determined the tone of the match.
Troicki and Bautista Agut bounced back into the contest, breaking Paes-Nestor's serve to claim the second set 3-6 and square the contest and push the match into the deciding third set tie-breaker.
In the tense tie-breaker, Paes and Nestor utilised their experience to the hilt, claiming the decider 10-7 to wrap up the match.