Mike Bryan celebrated a special milestone on Tuesday at the US Open as he and twin brother Bob Bryan defeated Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-3, 6-4 in the quarter-finals. The result sees Mike Bryan move ahead of Daniel Nestor as the player with most doubles match wins with 1052 victories to his name. Nestor has 1051, while Bob Bryan has 1038. "It’s a cool milestone," Mike said. "Obviously it's going to feel sweeter when we do it together, but for a few weeks I’m going to be the No. 1 guy, he’ll be the No. 3. It’s a lot of matches, what can I say? "It’s 19 years on tour. To pass our good friend Nesty - he just...
For the second time in three matches, five-time champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan have had to go the distance to keep the US Open campaign alive. Now the No. 5 seeds are through to the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows for the 12th time after rebounding to defeat No. 9 seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic. The Bryans recovered from a slow start to prevail 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 against the Austrian-Croatian duo. Marach and Pavic, who had fallen in a gruelling Wimbledon final to Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 13-11 in the fifth set, had come out firing. "We dug deep today and it really came down to a few break points. We were pretty solid on our serves and...
Five-time champions Bob and Mike Bryan are through to the quarter-finals but it’s Juan Martin del Potro who walks away with bragging rights for Hot Shot of the day in the men’s doubles at the Coupe Rogers. The Bryan brothers were on their way to a 6-3, 7-5 victory over the Argentine and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov when del Potro brought the Montreal crowd to its feet. Trailing a set and with Mike Bryan serving to level at 2-2 in the second set, del Potro scrambled back to swat a flick lob on the run. When it narrowly sailed out of Mike’s reach to land in, Dimitrov raised his arms in jubilation as the Court 5 crowd duly responded. On the...
Top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan got their American hard-court swing off to a flying start, taking the doubles title at the BB&T Atlanta Open with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak. “After a tough first-round which we could have lost, I thought we played really well,” said Mike. "It's always so nice to play in a city that really appreciates doubles. We could feel the love and support all week and it carried us though. Hopefully we can continue this form though the summer and we're looking forward to our next stop in [Washington] D.C. Thanks to tournament director Eddie Gonzales for another fabulous tournament and we look forward to hopefully being back next...
Top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan completed a marathon 48 hours of tennis to take the doubles title on Friday at the Aegon International in Eastbourne. After winning two matches on Thursday and a semi-final earlier on Friday, they downed Rohan Bopanna and Andre Sa 6-7(4), 6-4, 10-3 in an entertaining final. The win gives the Bryan brothers a staggering 113th ATP World Tour doubles title and their first of the season. They last prevailed at Eastbourne in 2003 (d. Eagle/Palmer). Their last title came in May 2016 at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Rome. Fittingly, their latest victory comes after Bryan/Bryan reunited last month at Roland Garros with coach David Macpherson. They pick up 250...
