Canada’s Daniel Nestor ends Davis Cup career with loss to the Netherlands
TORONTO — The final match of Daniel Nestor’s Davis Cup career did not go as planned.
Nestor and partner Vasek Pospisil suffered a four-set loss to Matwe Middelkoop and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands on Saturday afternoon as Canada dropped to a 2-1 lead in their Davis Cup tie. The 46-year-old Nestor in the international tennis competition for 25 years, playing in 53 Davis Cup ties, more than double that of any other Canadian.
“I wanted to play one more season and this match was one of the most important of the year for me and, obviously, I wanted to play better,” said a visibly disappointed Nestor. “I prepared pretty well for it and I was playing well in practice, but my level’s just not good enough anymore.”
Nestor and Pospisil lost to the Dutch duo 6-3, 3-6, 4-6, 4-6 in front of a partisan crowd at Coca-Cola Coliseum on the Exhibition Place grounds of Nestor’s hometown of Toronto.