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Tennis Canada announced Wednesday the four players nominated for selection to the Canadian Olympic Team for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Daniel Nestor (Toronto), Vasek Pospisil (Vancouver), Milos Raonic (Thornhill, Ontario) and Aleksandra Wozniak (Blainville, Quebec) will represent Canada in London. Raonic and Wozniak will play singles while Nestor and Pospisil will team up for doubles.

In singles, the Top 56 players in the world as of the June 11 rankings deadline receive direct entry into the tennis event provided they meet all other requirements set out for qualification. Raonic sits at No. 21 in the world while Wozniak's third round appearance at the French Open lifted her to the exact cut-off point of No. 56. It will be the first Olympic Games for both.

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Canada's Daniel Nestor and partner Max Mirnyi of Belarus captured the 2012 French Open Men's Doubles championship on Saturday after a 6-4, 6-4 win over Americans Bob and Mike Bryan. The title is the duo's second consecutive French Open win as a pair and the third straight for Nestor who also took home the trophy in 2010 with Nenad Zimonjic.

The No. 1 seeds, Nestor and Mirnyi got an early break in the first set and, despite facing some challenges from the No. 2 seeded American pair, managed to hold up their end to maintain the lead. The second set was another extremely tight affair as each of the first six games reached at least one deuce. However, Nestor and Mirnyi broke the Bryans in the third game and it was once again all they needed to hold on and win the championship.

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Daniel Nestor (Toronto) and his Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic narrowly missed adding to their trophy case, losing the Australian Open final on Saturday night with a 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-3 defeat at the hands of American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan.

Nestor and Zimonjic let the match slip away in the third set, despite being ahead 30-0 on serve at 1-2. The Bryans  earned five consecutive points to steal the first break in the final frame. They held serve for the remainder of the match and a slicing serve by Bob Bryan gave the American brothers their fourth Australian Open title and eighth  Grand Slam.

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