The 21st century
United States · twins born Camarillo, California, 1978 · Bob left-handed, Mike right-handed · three Wimbledon doubles titles together
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3
Wimbledon men's doubles titles together
7
Wimbledon men's doubles finals, 2005 to 2014
5
Queen's Club doubles titles
137-37
Grass match record as a team
119
Tour titles as a team, a record
Identical twins born in Camarillo, California, on 29 April 1978, with Mike two minutes the elder, the Bryans are mirror twins: Bob is left-handed, Mike right-handed. Their mother, Kathy Blake, played Wimbledon four times. At Stanford, Bob won the 1998 NCAA singles, doubles and team titles, the doubles with Mike. They turned professional in 1998 and won a record 119 tour titles together, including 16 majors and 39 Masters 1000 events, and held the No. 1 doubles ranking as a team for a record 438 weeks. They won the Davis Cup with the United States in 2007 and Olympic gold in London in 2012. In 2013 they became the first men's team of the Open Era to hold all four major titles at once. They retired in August 2020 and entered the Hall of Fame in 2025.
| Wimbledon doubles | Champions 2006 (beat Fabrice Santoro and Nenad Zimonjić 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2), 2011 (Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecău 6-3, 6-4, 7-6) and 2013 (Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4). Finalists 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2014 |
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| Mike without Bob | Wimbledon 2018 with Jack Sock, beating Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 |
| Wimbledon mixed | Bob: champion 2008 with Samantha Stosur, beating Mike and Katarina Srebotnik 7-5, 6-4; finalist 2006 with Venus Williams. Mike: champion 2012 with Lisa Raymond, beating Elena Vesnina and Leander Paes 6-3, 5-7, 6-4; finalist 2001 with Liezel Huber |
| Olympics, London 2012 | Gold on the Wimbledon grass, beating Michaël Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 7-6 in the final. Mike also took bronze in the mixed with Lisa Raymond |
| Queen's Club | Five titles: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2011 and 2013. Finalists 2007 and 2012 |
| Other grass titles | Newport 2001 and 2002, Nottingham 2003, Eastbourne 2017. Mike also won Nottingham in 2002 with Mark Knowles |
| Davis Cup on grass | Won their doubles rubbers against Chile at home in the 2006 quarter-final and against Lleyton Hewitt and John Peers at Kooyong in 2016, the second in five sets |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Mixed doubles | with Samantha Stosur |
| 2012 | Mixed doubles | with Lisa Raymond |
| 2018 | Men's doubles | with Jack Sock |
| Nottingham | ||
| 2002 | Men's doubles | with Mark Knowles |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I didn't think anything could feel as sweet as the gold medal, but this one just feels like there's a cap, a lid, or a ribbon around our career."
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Stanford University
The chest bump that marked their big wins was borrowed from the Jensen brothers, French Open doubles champions in 1993. The Bryans took it up at Stanford, where the fraternity crowd named it. "The fraternity guys were calling for it," Mike said at Wimbledon in 2013.
Source: ESPNJunior tennis, California
As juniors they were forbidden by their parents to play each other in tournaments. When a draw set them against each other, they took turns defaulting. As professionals they met only three times, in lower-level events between 1998 and 2000, and Mike won two of the three.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2008 · Mixed final
The 2008 Wimbledon mixed doubles final put the twins on opposite sides of the net. Bob and Samantha Stosur beat Mike and Katarina Srebotnik 7-5, 6-4. Bob had lost the 2006 final with Venus Williams. Four years later Mike won the event himself, with Lisa Raymond.
Source: WikipediaOn tour
"We've been playing music together since we were 6 years old and tennis since the same," Mike said in 2012. In the Bryan Bros Band, Bob plays keyboards and bass and Mike plays drums, and they have played at Wimbledon and other tournaments.
Source: NPRWimbledon 2018
Bob hurt his hip in the Madrid final in May 2018 and had surgery that ended his season. Mike played on with Jack Sock, who had beaten the twins in the 2014 Wimbledon final, and won the title 7-5 in the fifth set against Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus. Bob was back beside him at the 2019 Australian Open.
Source: WikipediaNewport 2025
The twins were inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on 23 August 2025, alongside Maria Sharapova, on the horseshoe court of the Newport Casino, where they had won the grass-court Hall of Fame Championships in 2001 and 2002. Their speech took in the Davis Cup, the origins of the chest bump and their years together.
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