Nestor bounced from Aussie Open

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Melbourne, Australia -- Canadian Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic exited the Australian Open on Friday after being upset 7-5, 6-4 by Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Oliver Marach of Austria in the second round.

Nestor, who has 55 doubles titles to his credit, won the tournament in 2002 with Mark Knowles. And he won six titles with Zimonjic last year, including Wimbledon, the Rogers Cup in Toronto and the Masters Cup in Shanghai.

Kubot and Marach, together since 2006, did not play together at the ATP level last season, but reached the third round in Melbourne in 2007.

"The played well, hitting the ball hard and making a lot of big shots," said Nestor, seeded first in the doubles. "We probably got a bit rattled at the end of the first set.

"It's not that we were expecting them not to play well, but it might have been too much thinking about them and not enough about playing our game and staying relaxed. They ran the table from 5-5 in the first set to 0-4 in the second, we tried to dig out of a hole but we couldn't."

Nestor, 36, and Zimonjic both became first-time fathers in December.

The Toronto left-hander said the baby is waiting at home, but first he has a mixed doubles challenge with Aleksandra Wozniak of Blainville, Que.

"I have other responsibilities now, but my mixed partner has been waiting to play for a few days. I have to give it my best."

"But we would have hoped to have done better."

The match lasted 98 minutes, with Nestor and Zimonjic converting just one of five break points. Their opponents were good on three of six.

Nestor, in his 15th Australian Open, made the quarter-finals last year at Melbourne and the semifinals the year before. He went out in the first round the two years before that.