Bob Bryan

See also: Bryan brothers

For the Australian geologist, see Bob Bryan (geologist). For other people, see Robert Bryan.

Bob Bryan

Bryan at the 2015 French Open
Full name	Robert Charles Bryan
Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, U.S.
Born	(1978-04-29) April 29, 1978 (age 46) [1] Camarillo, California, U.S.
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	1998
Retired	2020
Plays	Left-handed (one-handed backhand)
College	Stanford
Coach	David Macpherson (2005–2016) Dušan Vemić (2016–2017) David Macpherson (2017–2020) Dave Marshall (2017–2020)
Prize money	US$15,931,631   46th all-time leader in earnings
Official website	bryanbros.com
Singles
Career record	21–40
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 116 (13 November 2000)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2000)
French Open	Q1 (2000)
Wimbledon	2R (2001)
US Open	2R (1998)
Doubles
Career record	1109–359
Career titles	119
Highest ranking	No. 1 (8 September 2003)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013)
French Open	W (2003, 2013)
Wimbledon	W (2006, 2011, 2013)
US Open	W (2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	W (2003, 2004, 2009, 2014)
Olympic Games	W (2012)
Mixed doubles
Career titles	7
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2016)
French Open	W (2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	W (2008)
US Open	W (2003, 2004, 2006, 2010)
Other mixed doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2012)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (2007)
Olympic medal record Men's tennis Representing   United States Olympic Games 2012 London Doubles 2008 Beijing Doubles Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg Doubles
Last updated on: 22 March 2020.

Robert "Bob" Charles Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. ^[2] He won 23 major titles: 16 in men's doubles and 7 in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Mike, he was the world No. 1 doubles player for several years, first achieving the top ranking in September 2003. The brothers were named the ATP Team of the Decade for 2000–2009. ^[3] They became the second men's doubles team to complete the career Golden Slam at the 2012 London Olympics.

The Bryan twins retired in August 2020. In their final two tournaments, the Bryan brothers successfully defended their title in Delray Beach, also winning the decisive rubber match in a U.S. Davis Cup tie in Honolulu. ^[4]

Tennis career

Doubles records

• 16 Grand Slams (Open Era)
• 30 Grand Slam men's doubles finals
• 10-time ITF World Champions
• 116 ATP Titles and 169 ATP Finals
• 439 weeks at #1
• 1000+ team match wins
• 10 consecutive years of winning at least 1 Grand Slam
• 11 time ATP Fans' Favorite Doubles Team and ATP Team of the Decade
• "Bryan Golden Slam" (only team to simultaneously hold all Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal)
• 7 consecutive Grand Slam finals (2005 Australian–2006 Wimbledon)
• 39 Masters 1000 titles
• "Career Golden Masters" (alongside Daniel Nestor only other players in history to win all nine Masters 1000 events)

Junior

He finished the year as the no. 1 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 University 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

ATP Tour

With his twin brother Mike (who is the older by two minutes), Bryan has won 116 doubles titles, ^[5] including sixteen 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. ^[6] In 2006, the Bryan brothers won Wimbledon and the Australian Open and completed a Career Grand Slam. Having won the 2012 US Open, they followed up by winning the first three majors of 2013, and thus held all four titles at once. They could not complete the calendar year Grand Slam, however, as they lost in the semi-finals of the 2013 US Open.

The twins have been the year-ending top-ranked team ten times: in 2003, ^[7] 2005, ^[8] 2006, ^[9] 2007, ^[10] and then each year from 2009 to 2014 inclusive.

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.

In the 2018 Madrid Masters 1000 final, Bryan injured his hip, and the pair had to retire down 3–5 in the first set. He underwent a hip relining and made a remarkable recovery, rejoining his brother less than a year later for the 2019 Australian Open and making it to the quarterfinals. They won their first title since his surgery in February 2019 at Delray Beach.

World TeamTennis

Both brothers kicked off their World TeamTennis careers back in 1999 for the Idaho Sneakers. They went on to play for the Newport Beach Breakers in 2004, the Kansas City Explorers from 2005 to 2012, the Texas Wild in 2013, the San Diego Aviators in 2014, the California Dream in 2015, the Washington Kastles from 2016 to 2018, and most recently the Vegas Rollers in 2019. They have two World TeamTennis titles, one from the Newport Beach Breakers in 2004, and another from the Kansas City Explorers in 2010. It was announced that Bryan, along with Mike, will be joining the Vegas Rollers during the 2020 WTT season set to begin July 12 at The Greenbrier. ^[11]

Personal life

Bryan married Florida attorney Michelle Alvarez in 2010; the couple have three children.^{[ citation needed ]}

Davis Cup record (26–5)

Together with his twin brother Mike Bryan, the pair has won the most Davis Cup matches of any doubles team for the United States. Bryan holds the record for most years played (14) in the Davis Cup for the U.S. ^[12] He also holds a 4–2 career record in singles ties.

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
2003	Play-off	Slovakia (Beck/Hrbatý)	W
2004	1st round	Austria (Knowle/Melzer)	W
2004	Quarterfinal	Sweden (Björkman/T. Johansson)	W
2004	Semifinal	Belarus (Mirnyi/Voltchkov)	W
2004	Final	Spain (Ferrero/Robredo)	W
2005	1st round	Croatia (Ančić/Ljubičić)	L
2005	Play-off	Belgium (Rochus/Vliegen)	W
2006	1st round	Romania (Hănescu/Tecău)	W
2006	Quarterfinal	Chile (Capdeville/Garcia)	W
2006	Semifinal	Russia (Tursunov/Youzhny)	W
2007	1st round	Czech Republic (Dlouhý/Vízner)	W
2007	Quarterfinal	Spain (López/Robredo)	W
2007	Semifinal	Sweden (Aspelin/Björkman)	W
2007	Final	Russia (Andreev/Davydenko)	W
2008	1st round	Austria (Knowle/Melzer)	W
2008	Quarterfinal	France (Clément/Llodra)	L
2009	1st round	Switzerland (Allegro/Wawrinka)	W
2009	Quarterfinal	Croatia (Karanusic/Zovko)	W
2010	1st round (w/ John Isner)	Serbia (Tipsarević/Zimonjić)	W
2011	1st round	Chile (Aguilar/Massú)	W
2011	Semifinal	Spain (Granollers/Verdasco)	W
2012	Quarterfinal	France (Benneteau/Llodra)	W
2012	Semifinal	Spain (Granollers/López)	W
2013	1st round	Brazil (Melo/Soares)	L
2013	Quarterfinal	Serbia (Bozoljac/Zimonjić)	L
2014	1st round	Great Britain (Fleming/Inglot)	W
2014	Play-off	Slovakia (Gombos/Lacko)	W
2015	1st round	Great Britain (Inglot/Murray)	W
2016	1st round	Australia (Hewitt/Peers)	W
2016	Quarterfinal	Croatia (Čilić/Dodig)	L
2020	Qualifying round	Uzbekistan (Fayziev/Istomin)	W

Grand Slam tournaments

Main article: Bob Bryan career statistics

Men's doubles: 30 (16–14)

By winning the 2006 Wimbledon title, Bryan completed the men's doubles Career Grand Slam. He became the 19th individual player and, with Mike Bryan, the 7th doubles pair to achieve this.

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2003	French Open	Clay	Mike Bryan	Paul Haarhuis Yevgeny Kafelnikov	7–6(7–3), 6–3
Runner-up	2003	US Open	Hard	Mike Bryan	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	7–5, 0–6, 5–7
Runner-up	2004	Australian Open	Hard	Mike Bryan	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Runner-up	2005	Australian Open (2)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2005	French Open	Clay	Mike Bryan	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	6–2, 1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2005	Wimbledon	Grass	Mike Bryan	Stephen Huss Wesley Moodie	6–7(4–7), 3–6, 7–6(7–2), 3–6
Winner	2005	US Open	Hard	Mike Bryan	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	6–1, 6–4
Winner	2006	Australian Open	Hard	Mike Bryan	Martin Damm Leander Paes	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	2006	French Open (2)	Clay	Mike Bryan	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	7–6(7–5), 4–6, 5–7
Winner	2006	Wimbledon	Grass	Mike Bryan	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Winner	2007	Australian Open (2)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	7–5, 7–5
Runner-up	2007	Wimbledon (2)	Grass	Mike Bryan	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra	7–6(7–5), 3–6, 4–6, 4–6
Winner	2008	US Open (2)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	7–6(7–5), 7–6(12–10)
Winner	2009	Australian Open (3)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	2–6, 7–5, 6–0
Runner-up	2009	Wimbledon (3)	Grass	Mike Bryan	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–7(7–9), 7–6(7–3), 6–7(5–7), 3–6
Winner	2010	Australian Open (4)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3
Winner	2010	US Open (3)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–4)
Winner	2011	Australian Open (5)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2011	Wimbledon (2)	Grass	Mike Bryan	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–2)
Runner-up	2012	Australian Open (3)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Leander Paes Radek Štěpánek	6–7(1–7), 2–6
Runner-up	2012	French Open (3)	Clay	Mike Bryan	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	4–6, 4–6
Winner	2012	US Open (4)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Leander Paes Radek Štěpánek	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2013	Australian Open (6)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Robin Haase Igor Sijsling	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2013	French Open (2)	Clay	Mike Bryan	Michaël Llodra Nicolas Mahut	6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	2013	Wimbledon (3)	Grass	Mike Bryan	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	2014	Wimbledon (4)	Grass	Mike Bryan	Jack Sock Vasek Pospisil	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–3), 4–6, 6–3, 5–7
Winner	2014	US Open (5)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	2015	French Open (4)	Clay	Mike Bryan	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	7–6(7–5), 6–7(5–7), 5–7
Runner-up	2016	French Open (5)	Clay	Mike Bryan	Feliciano López Marc López	4–6, 7–6(8–6), 3–6
Runner-up	2017	Australian Open (4)	Hard	Mike Bryan	Henri Kontinen John Peers	5–7, 5–7

Mixed doubles: 9 (7–2)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2002	US Open	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Lisa Raymond Mike Bryan	6–7(9–11), 6–7(1–7)
Winner	2003	US Open	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Lina Krasnoroutskaya Daniel Nestor	5–7, 7–5, [10–5]
Winner	2004	US Open (2)	Hard	Vera Zvonareva	Alicia Molik Todd Woodbridge	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	2006	Wimbledon	Grass	Venus Williams	Vera Zvonareva Andy Ram	3–6, 2–6
Winner	2006	US Open (3)	Hard	Martina Navratilova	Květa Peschke Martin Damm	6–2, 6–3
Winner	2008	French Open	Clay	Victoria Azarenka	Katarina Srebotnik Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	2008	Wimbledon	Grass	Samantha Stosur	Katarina Srebotnik Mike Bryan	7–5, 6–4
Winner	2009	French Open (2)	Clay	Liezel Huber	Vania King Marcelo Melo	5–7, 7–6(7–5), [10–7]
Winner	2010	US Open (4)	Hard	Liezel Huber	Květa Peschke Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6–4, 6–4

Performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Doubles

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	SR	W–L	Win%
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	QF	3R	F	F	W	W	QF	W	W	W	F	W	3R	3R	3R	F	SF	QF	3R	6 / 21	77–15	84%
French Open	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	2R	QF	W	SF	F	F	QF	QF	SF	2R	SF	F	W	QF	F	F	2R	A	3R	A	2 / 20	68–18	79%
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	SF	SF	QF	3R	F	W	F	SF	F	QF	W	SF	W	F	QF	QF	2R	A	3R	NH	3 / 20	72–17	81%
US Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	2R	SF	F	3R	W	3R	QF	W	SF	W	1R	W	SF	W	1R	QF	SF	A	3R	A	5 / 24	67–19	78%
Win–loss	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	3–3	4–4	6–4	14–4	14–3	13–4	21–3	18–2	17–3	16–3	19–3	16–2	16–2	20–3	22–1	16–3	10–4	13–4	11–4	4–1	9–4	2–1	16 / 85	284–69	80.45%
Year-end championship
ATP Finals	Did not qualify (DNQ)						RR	A	W	W	SF	RR	A	F	W	SF	SF	RR	F	W	SF	SF	RR	DNQ	A	DNQ	4 / 15	36–23	61%

Mixed doubles

Martina Navratilova gives Bryan a hand. The pair won the 2006 Mixed Doubles title at the US Open.

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	SR	W–L	Win %
Australian Open	A	A	A	QF	1R	1R	QF	QF	QF	A	A	2R	2R	A	QF	A	A	QF	A	A	A	A	0 / 10	14–10	58%
French Open	2R	QF	A	SF	QF	QF	A	SF	QF	W	W	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	QF	A	A	A	A	2 / 12	27–10	73%
Wimbledon	QF	1R	QF	QF	2R	SF	2R	F	3R	W	QF	2R	QF	SF	A	3R	2R	A	A	A	A	NH	1 / 16	37–15	71%
US Open	A	A	1R	F	W	W	QF	W	2R	A	A	W	2R	2R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	4 / 10	29–6	83%
Win–loss	4–2	3–2	3–2	12–4	8–3	10–3	4–3	14–3	6–4	11–0	7–1	7–2	5–3	4–3	2–1	2–1	0–2	4–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	7 / 48	106–41	57%

Grand Slam seedings

The tournaments won by Bryan are in boldface, and advances into finals by Bryan are in italics.

Men's doubles

Legend (slams won / times seeded) seeded No. 1 (11 / 36) seeded No. 2 (4 / 15) seeded No. 3 (1 / 7) seeded No. 4–10 (0 / 13) Seeded outside the top 10 (0 / 2) not seeded (0 / 13)

Longest / total 5 85 3 3 5 1 9

Year	Australian Open	French Open	Wimbledon	US Open
1995	did not play	did not play	did not play	not seeded
1996	did not play	did not play	did not play	not seeded
1997	did not play	did not play	did not play	wild card
1998	did not play	did not play	did not play	wild card
1999	did not play	not seeded	not seeded	not seeded
2000	not seeded	not seeded	not seeded	not seeded
2001	not seeded	not seeded	15th	8th
2002	10th	5th	6th	6th
2003	2nd	3rd (1)	3rd	2nd (1)
2004	1st (2)	1st	2nd	2nd
2005	2nd (3)	3rd (4)	2nd (5)	2nd (2)
2006	1st (3)	1st (6)	1st (4)	1st
2007	1st (5)	1st	1st (7)	1st
2008	1st	1st	1st	2nd (6)
2009	2nd (7)	2nd	1st (8)	1st
2010	1st (8)	1st	2nd	1st (9)
2011	1st (10)	1st	1st (11)	1st
2012	1st (9)	2nd (10)	2nd	2nd (12)
2013	1st (13)	1st (14)	1st (15)	1st
2014	1st	1st	1st (11)	1st (16)
2015	1st	1st (12)	1st	1st
2016	3rd	5th (13)	2nd	3rd
2017	3rd	3rd (14)	5th	5th
2018	6th	did not play	did not play	did not play
2019	4th	7th	7th	7th
2020	13th	retired

References

1. "Bob Bryan". ATP World Tour. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
2. Clarey, Christopher (August 27, 2020). "The Bryan Brothers Retire as They Played: Together". The New York Times.
3. "ATP Players of the Decade 2000–2009". ATP Tennis. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
4. "Bryan Brothers Announce Retirement, Ending Legendary Doubles Partnership | ATP Tour | Tennis".
5. "ESPN Bio:Bob Bryan". ESPN . Retrieved February 3, 2009.
6. "ATP Bio:Bob Bryan". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Retrieved April 12, 2021.
7. ATP Team Doubles Rankings For 11/17/03 Archived April 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine ,
8. ATP Team Doubles Rankings For 11/21/05 Archived March 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
9. ATP Team Doubles Rankings For 11/20/06 Archived June 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
10. ATP Team Doubles Rankings For 11/19/07 Archived July 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
11. "World TeamTennis Adds Stars Tiafoe, Puig, Roanic, Bouchard, & Sock As Rosters Set For 2020". WTT.com. June 16, 2020.
12. "Davis Cup - Teams".

External links

• Bob Bryan at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Bob Bryan at the International Tennis Federation
• Bob Bryan at the Davis Cup
• Official Site
• Profile on the 60 Minutes news magazine broadcast March 21, 2010

Awards
Preceded by Mark Knowles & Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić & Daniel Nestor	ITF Men's doubles World Champion (with Mike Bryan) 2003–07 2009–14	Succeeded by Nenad Zimonjić & Daniel Nestor Jean-Julien Rojer & Horia Tecău
Preceded by Mark Knowles & Daniel Nestor Mark Knowles & Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić & Daniel Nestor	ATP Doubles Team of the Year (with Mike Bryan) 2003 2005–07 2009–14	Succeeded by Mark Knowles & Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić & Daniel Nestor Jean-Julien Rojer & Horia Tecău
Preceded by None	ATP Fans' Favorite Team (with Mike Bryan) 2006–17	Succeeded by Mike Bryan & Jack Sock
Preceded by Andy Murray	Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year (with Mike Bryan) 2015	Succeeded by Marin Čilić
Records
Preceded by John McEnroe	Most Weeks at World No. 1 (Doubles) (with Mike Bryan) December 12, 2011 – November 5, 2012	Succeeded by Mike Bryan