Bob Bryan
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Robert Charles "Bob" Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American male professional tennis player. With his twin brother Mike
, he has spent over 200 weeks as a World No. 1 doubles player. He has won eighteen Grand Slam
titles, 11 in men's doubles and seven in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998. The Bryan brothers were named ATP Team of the Decade for 2000–2009.
in 1997 and 1998, where he helped the Cardinal
win back-to-back NCAA team championships
. In 1998, he won the "Triple Crown" by taking the NCAA singles, doubles (with his twin brother Mike
), and team titles. He was the first man to accomplish this since Stanford's Alex O'Brien
did it in 1992.
for teams like the Idaho Sneakers
through the current season for the Kansas City Explorers
.
(who is the older by two minutes), Bob has won 75 doubles titles, including eleven Grand Slam
titles. In 2005, the Bryan brothers
made it to the finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments, only the second time a men's doubles team has done this during the open era. In 2006, the Bryan brothers won Wimbledon
and the Australian Open and completed a Career Grand Slam. They repeated their Australian Open victory in 2007. As of February 2, 2009, the Bryan brothers both as a team and individually are ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals
. Six times they were the year-ending top-ranked team, in 2003 2005, 2006, and 2007, 2009, and 2010.
The Bryan brothers have been frequent participants on U.S. Davis Cup
teams. The United States sealed its 32nd title at the 2007 Davis Cup
.
.
The Bryan brothers were featured on the Jan/Feb 2010 cover of Making Music Magazine
.
Bob's father Wayne Bryan wrote a book about the Bryan Brothers named "The Formula: Raising your Child to Be a Champion".
, the pair won
the most Davis Cup matches of any team in doubles for the US. In 2010 he won the doubles match
in Serbia with John Isner
. Bob has a 4-2 record in singles matches.
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam men's doubles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
Mike Bryan
Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...
, he has spent over 200 weeks as a World No. 1 doubles player. He has won eighteen Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
titles, 11 in men's doubles and seven in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998. The Bryan brothers were named ATP Team of the Decade for 2000–2009.
Doubles Records
- 75 ATP Tournament Wins (set record (62) at 2010 Farmers ClassicLos Angeles Open (tennis)The Los Angeles Open and formerly known as the Countrywide Classic, Los Angeles Tennis Open, Pacific South West Open, and other sponsored names, is an ATP World Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour held in Los Angeles, California, United States...
in Los Angeles) - 11 Grand Slam Doubles Titles (tied with Woodies)
- 19 Grand Slam Finals
- 271 weeks at #1 in the world (John McEnroe previously held the record of 270 weeks)
- 7-time ITF World Champions (5 straight from 2003–2007)
- 8-time ATP Team of the Year
- 7 consecutive years of winning at least 1 Grand Slam
- Only team to win 600 tour level matches (currently has won over 700)
- 7 consecutive Grand Slam Finals (2005 Australian-2006 Wimbledon)
- 116 ATP Tournament Finals
- 18 Davis Cup World Group Wins
- 19 Masters 1000 titles
- Largest crowd in tennis history – 27,200 (Seville, Spain, 12/04/2004)
- 3 World Tour Finals Wins
- 6 time ATP Fans' Favorite Doubles Team & ATP Team of the Decade
Junior
He finished the year as the number one ranked singles player in the nation in 1998 after winning the clay court nationals and reaching the finals of Kalamazoo. The brothers were back to back Kalamazoo doubles champions in 1995 and 1996 and won the US Open Junior doubles title in 1996.College
He played for Stanford UniversityStanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 1997 and 1998, where he helped the Cardinal
Stanford Cardinal
The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the athletic teams at Stanford University.-Nickname and mascot history:Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game in 1892, the color cardinal was picked as the primary color of Stanford's athletic teams...
win back-to-back NCAA team championships
NCAA Men's Tennis Championship
The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are held to crown a team, individual, and doubles champion in American college tennis. The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the NCAA, with Harvard's Joseph Clark taking the singles title...
. In 1998, he won the "Triple Crown" by taking the NCAA singles, doubles (with his twin brother Mike
Mike Bryan
Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...
), and team titles. He was the first man to accomplish this since Stanford's Alex O'Brien
Alex O'Brien
Alex O'Brien is a professional tennis player from the United States, who competed on the ATP Tour. He was the No. 1 doubles player in the world and was ranked as high as 30 in the world in singles .He won his only singles title at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1996...
did it in 1992.
World TeamTennis
Both brothers started their professional careers playing World TeamTennisWorld TeamTennis
World TeamTennis is a coed professional tennis league played with a unique team format in the United States. Each match consists of five sets. Each set features a different configuration . Coaches, before the match, decide the order in which the sets will be played...
for teams like the Idaho Sneakers
Idaho Sneakers
The Idaho Sneakers were a professional tennis team in the city of Boise. They entered the World TeamTennis League in 1994, and the franchise moved to St. Louis, Missouri as the St. Louis Aces after the 2000 season...
through the current season for the Kansas City Explorers
Kansas City Explorers
The Kansas City Explorers is a World TeamTennis team that play at the Barney Allis Plaza in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The team also played in Kemper Arena from 1993 until 2001.-Championships:...
.
ATP Tour
With his twin brother MikeMike Bryan
Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...
(who is the older by two minutes), Bob has won 75 doubles titles, including eleven Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
titles. In 2005, the Bryan brothers
Bob and Mike Bryan
Twin brothers Robert Charles Bryan and Michael Carl Bryan are American professional tennis double players. They have been the World No. 1 doubles player for over 270 weeks and have finished the ATP year-end number 1 doubles team a record 7 times...
made it to the finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments, only the second time a men's doubles team has done this during the open era. In 2006, the Bryan brothers won Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
and the Australian Open and completed a Career Grand Slam. They repeated their Australian Open victory in 2007. As of February 2, 2009, the Bryan brothers both as a team and individually are ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals
Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...
. Six times they were the year-ending top-ranked team, in 2003 2005, 2006, and 2007, 2009, and 2010.
The Bryan brothers have been frequent participants on U.S. Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
teams. The United States sealed its 32nd title at the 2007 Davis Cup
2007 Davis Cup
The 2007 Davis Cup was the 96th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. Sixteen teams participated in the World Group and 123 took part in different regional groups...
.
Off-court
The Bryans guest starred on 8 Simple Rules8 Simple Rules
8 Simple Rules is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 17, 2002, to April 15, 2005, with 76 episodes produced over three seasons. It is based on the self-improvement book of the same name. The show starred John Ritter until his death on September 11, 2003...
.
The Bryan brothers were featured on the Jan/Feb 2010 cover of Making Music Magazine
Making Music Magazine
Making Music Magazine is a bi-monthly lifestyle music magazine devoted to the recreational musician and all instruments and genres of music. Their tag line is "Better Living Through Recreational Music Making."...
.
Bob's father Wayne Bryan wrote a book about the Bryan Brothers named "The Formula: Raising your Child to Be a Champion".
Personal life
Bob married Florida attorney Michelle Alvarez in North Miami Beach on December 13, 2010. The couple now resides in Sunny Isles Beach, FL.Davis Cup record (19–2)
Together with his twin brother Mike BryanMike Bryan
Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...
, the pair won
the most Davis Cup matches of any team in doubles for the US. In 2010 he won the doubles match
in Serbia with John Isner
John Isner
John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick...
. Bob has a 4-2 record in singles matches.
| Opponent | Result |
| Switzerland (Wawrinka/Allegro) | W |
| Slovak Republic (Beck/Hrbatý) | W |
| Austria (Knowle/Melzer) | W |
| Sweden (Björkman/T.Johansson) | W |
| Belarus (Mirnyi/Volchkov) | W |
| Spain (Ferrero/Robredo) | W |
| Croatia (Ančić/Ljubičić ) | L |
| Belgium (Rochus/Vliegen) | W |
| Romania (Hănescu/Tecau) | W |
| Chile (Capdeville/Garcia) | W |
| Russia (Tursunov/Youzhny) | W |
| Czech Republic (Dlouhý/Vízner) | W |
| Spain (Lopez/Verdasco) | W |
| Sweden (Aspelin/Björkman) | W |
| Russia (Andreev/Daveydenko) | W |
| Austria (Knowle/Melzer) | W |
| France (Clément/Llodra) | L |
| Chile (Aguilar/Massu) | W |
| Spain (Verdasco/Granoellers) | W |
| Sweden (Bjorkman/Aspelin) | W |
| Serbia (Zimonjic/Tipsarevic) | W |
Men's doubles
| Tournament | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | Career SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open Australian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court... |
A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | QF | 3R | F | F | W | W | QF | W | W | W | 5 / 12 |
| French Open | A | A | A | A | 2R | 2R | 2R | QF | W | SF | F | F | QF | QF | SF | 2R | SF | 1 / 13 |
| Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
A | A | A | A | 3R | 1R | SF | SF | QF | 3R | F | W | F | SF | F | QF | W | 2 / 13 |
| US Open | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | QF | 2R | SF | F | 3R | W | 3R | QF | W | SF | W | 1R | 3 / 17 |
| SR | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 2 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 2 / 4 | 2 / 4 | 11 / 55 |
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam men's doubles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
Mixed doubles
| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | Career SR | Career W-L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open Australian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court... |
A | A | A | QF | 1R | 1R | QF | QF | QF | A | A | 2R | 2R | 0 / 8 | 10–8 |
| French Open | 2R | QF | A | SF | QF | QF | A | QF | QF | W | W 2009 French Open – Mixed Doubles In the 2009 French Open – Mixed Doubles event Victoria Azarenka and Bob Bryan were the defending champions, but Azarenka chose not to participate, and only Bryan competed in the tournament.Bryan partnered with Liezel Huber and won in the final 5–7, 7–6, 10–7, against Vania King... |
A | A | 2 / 9 | 25–7 |
| Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
QF | 1R | QF | QF | 2R | SF | 2R | F | 3R | W | QF | 2R | QF | 1 / 13 | 30–11 |
| US Open | A | A | 1R | F | W | W | QF | W | 2R | A | A | W 2010 US Open – Mixed Doubles Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Gisela Dulko and Pablo Cuevas 2–6, 4–6.Liezel Huber and Bob Bryan won in the final 6–4, 6–4, against Květa Peschke and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.- Seeds :... |
2R | 4 / 9 | 28–5 |
| W–L | 4–2 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 12–4 | 8–3 | 10–3 | 4–3 | 14–3 | 6–4 | 11–0 | 7–1 | 7–2 | 4–2 | 7 / 39 | 93–31 |
External links
- Official Site
- Profile on the 60 Minutes60 Minutes60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
news magazine broadcast March 21, 2010