Bob Bryan

Bob Bryan

Bob Bryan at the 2015 French Open
Full name	Robert Charles Bryan
Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, U.S.
Born	April 29, 1978 Camarillo, California, U.S.
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Turned pro	1998
Plays	Left-handed (one-handed backhand)
College	Stanford
Coach(es)	David Macpherson (2005–)
Prize money	US$ 13,389,866
Singles
Career record	21–40 (ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 116 (November 13, 2000)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2000)
French Open	Q1 (2000)
Wimbledon	2R (2001)
US Open	2R (1998)
Doubles
Career record	958-293 (ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	111
Highest ranking	No. 1 (September 8, 2003)
Current ranking	No. 3 (February 15, 2016)
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	Gold Medal (2012) Bronze Medal (2008)
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)
Last updated on: February 1, 2016.

Medal record
Men's tennis
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
	2012 London	Doubles
	2008 Beijing	Doubles
Pan American Games
	1999 Winnipeg	Doubles

Robert Charles "Bob" Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American male professional tennis player. He has won twenty-three Grand Slam titles: 16 in men's doubles and 7 in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Mike, he has been world No. 1 doubles player for much of the last several years, first achieving the top ranking in September 2003. The brothers were named ATP Team of the Decade for 2000–2009.^[1] The brothers became the second men's doubles team to complete the career golden slam at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Tennis career

Doubles records

• 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles
• 29 Grand Slam men's doubles finals
• 10-time ITF World Champions
• 109 ATP Titles and 161 ATP Finals
• 439 weeks at #1
• 1000+ team match wins
• 10 consecutive years of winning at least 1 Grand Slam
• 8 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)
• 32 Masters 1000 titles
• "Career Golden Masters" (only players in history to win all 9 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.

World TeamTennis

Both brothers started their professional careers playing World TeamTennis for teams like the Idaho Sneakers through the current season for the Kansas City Explorers.^[2]

ATP Tour

With his twin brother Mike (who is the older by two minutes), Bob has won 89 doubles titles,^[3] 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.^[4] 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^[5] 2005,^[6] 2006,^[7] and 2007,^[8] 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.

Off-court

The Bryans guest starred on 8 Simple Rules.^[9] They were featured on the Jan/Feb 2010 cover of Making Music Magazine.^[10] Their father, Wayne Bryan, wrote a book about his sons, The Formula: Raising Your Child to be a Champion.^[11]

Personal life

Bob Bryan married Florida attorney Michelle Alvarez in North Miami Beach on December 13, 2010; the couple have three children, Micaela, born January 31, 2012, Robert Blake "Bobby Jr.", born December 24, 2013 and Richard Charles "Richie" October 27, 2015.

Davis Cup record (24–4)

Together with his twin brother Mike Bryan, the pair have 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.

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
2003	Play-off	Slovak Republic (Beck/Hrbatý)	W
2004	1st round	Austria (Knowle/Melzer)	W
2004	Quarterfinal	Sweden (Björkman/T.Johansson)	W
2004	Semifinal	Belarus (Mirnyi/Volchkov)	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	Serbia (Zimonjić/Tipsarević)	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 (Zimonjić/Bozoljac)	L
2014	1st round	Great Britain (Fleming/Inglot)	W
2014	Play-off	Slovakia (Lacko/Gombos)	W
2015	1st round	Great Britain (Inglot/Murray)	W

Grand Slam tournaments

Men's singles

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001
Australian Open
French Open
Wimbledon				2R
US Open	2R	1R	1R	1R

Men's Doubles: 29 (16–13)

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	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	Clay	Mike Bryan	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	7–6^(7–5), 6–7^(5–7), 5–7
Runner-up	2016	French Open	Clay	Mike Bryan	Feliciano López Marc López	4–6, 7–6^(8–6), 3–6

Timeline

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	SR
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	QF	3R	F	F	W	W	QF	W	W	W	F	W	3R	3R	3R	6 / 17
French Open	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	2R	QF	W	SF	F	F	QF	QF	SF	2R	SF	F	W	QF	F	F	2 / 18
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	SF	SF	QF	3R	F	W	F	SF	F	QF	W	SF	W	F	QF	QF	3 / 18
US Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	2R	SF	F	3R	W	3R	QF	W	SF	W	1R	W	SF	W	1R		5 / 21
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	1 / 4	3 / 4	1 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 1	16 / 72
Year-End Championship
World Tour Finals	Did Not Qualify						RR	A	W	W	SF	RR	F	W	SF	SF	RR	A	F	W	SF

Mixed doubles: 9 (7–2)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2002	US Open	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Lisa Raymond Mike Bryan	7–6^(11–9), 7–6^(7–1)
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	6–3, 6–2
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

Timeline

Martina Navratilova gives Bob 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	SR	W–L
Australian Open	A	A	A	QF	1R	1R	QF	QF	QF	A	A	2R	2R	A	QF	A	0 / 9	12–9
French Open	2R	QF	A	SF	QF	QF	A	SF	QF	W	W	A	A	1R	A	A	2 / 10	25–8
Wimbledon	QF	1R	QF	QF	2R	SF	2R	F	3R	W	QF	2R	QF	SF	A	3R	1 / 15	37–14
US Open	A	A	1R	F	W	W	QF	W	2R	A	A	W	2R	2R	A	A	4 / 10	29–6
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	5–3	4–3	2–1	2–1	7 / 44	102–37

References

1. "ATP Players of the Decade 2000–2009". ATP Tennis. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
2. Listed as team members on those sites.
3. "ESPN Bio:Bob Bryan". ESPN. Retrieved February 3, 2009.
4. "ATP Bio:Bob Bryan". ATP. Archived from the original on February 3, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2009.
5. ATP Team Doubles Rankings For 11/17/03 Archived April 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.,
6. ATP Team Doubles Rankings For 11/21/05 Archived March 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
7. ATP Team Doubles Rankings For 11/20/06 Archived June 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
8. ATP Team Doubles Rankings For 11/19/07 Archived July 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
9. "Bob Bryan profile". imdb.com. Retrieved February 3, 2009.
10. Making Music Magazine feature, 2010; accessed July 9, 2014.
11. "The Formula". Retrieved November 3, 2008.

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