Mike Bryan

Michael Carl Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all time, Bryan was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's doubles for a record 506 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 a record ten times. Bryan won a record 128 ATP Tour-level doubles titles, including 22 majors: a record 18 in men's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. Alongside his twin brother Bob, the Bryan brothers were one of the most successful doubles partnerships in tennis history. The pair were named the ATP Team of the Decade for the 2000s. They became the second men's doubles team to complete the career Golden Slam at the 2012 London Olympics, and completed the double career Grand Slam. Mike Bryan also had success partnering Jack Sock, winning two majors and the 2018 ATP Finals, as well as the 2018 ATP World Tour Fans' Favorite Doubles Team.

The Bryan brothers retired from the sport together in August 2020. In 2025, they were inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Tennis career

College Bryan 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 NCAA doubles title with his twin brother Bob.

Professional

Together with his twin brother Bob, he was very successful in doubles. They won 119 doubles titles (winning their record-setting 86th title at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open in California, USA) including a record 16 Grand Slam titles. In 2005, he and Bob made it to the finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments, only the second time such a feat has been achieved in the Open era. The Bryan Brothers were ranked No. 1 in the ATP. Due to their success, they were nicknamed The Wonder Twins after a fictional comic book duo.

During the 2018 Madrid Open, Bob injured his hip and subsequently had season ending surgery. In his brother's absence, Bryan partnered with several other players, namely Sam Querrey at Roland Garros, Jack Sock at Queen's, Wimbledon and the US Open, Ryan Harrison during the Davis Cup, and with James Cerretani, Frances Tiafoe and Édouard Roger-Vasselin at other tour events.

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 twin brother Bob, will be joining the Vegas Rollers during the 2020 WTT season set to begin July 12 at The Greenbrier.

Davis Cup record (28–5) Together with his twin brother Bob Bryan, the pair has won the most Davis Cup matches of any team in doubles for the United States. Bryan also owns U.S. Davis Cup records with 27 individual doubles wins and 32 ties played.

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 2008 Semifinal (w/ Mardy Fish) Spain (Lopez/Verdasco) W 2009 1st round Switzerland (Allegro/Wawrinka) W 2009 Quarterfinal Croatia (Karanusic/Zovko) W 2011 1st round Chile (Aguilar/Massú) W 2011 Semifinal Spain (Granollers/Verdasco) W 2012 1st round (w/ Mardy Fish) Switzerland (Federer/Wawrinka) 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 2016 1st round Australia (Hewitt/Peers) W 2016 Quarterfinal Croatia (Čilić/Dodig) L 2018 Semifinal (w/ Ryan Harrison) Croatia (Dodig/Pavić) W 2020 Qualifying round Uzbekistan (Fayziev/Istomin) W

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 32 (18 titles, 14 runner-ups) By winning the 2006 Wimbledon title, Bryan completed the men's doubles Career Grand Slam. He became the 19th individual player and, with Bob Bryan, the seventh doubles pair to achieve this. In 2012, by winning the Olympic gold medal, along with his brother, Bryan completed the career "Golden Slam", as did Bob. They are the only team that has ever accomplished this.

Mixed doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Year-end championship finals

Doubles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Summer Olympics finals

Doubles: 2 (1 gold medal, 1 bronze medal) Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score Bronze 2008 Beijing Hard Bob Bryan Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 Gold 2012 London Grass Bob Bryan Michaël Llodra Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6–4, 7–6(7–2)

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 bronze medal) Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score Bronze 2012 London Grass Lisa Raymond Sabine Lisicki Christopher Kas 6–3, 4–6, [10–4]

ATP Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 59 (39 titles, 20 runner-ups)

Performance timelines

Doubles

Mixed doubles

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 (2 / 8)seeded No. 4–10 (1 / 15)Seeded outside the top 10 (0 / 3)not seeded (0 / 13)Longest / total 128833519

ATP Tour career earnings Year Grand Slamdoubles titles ATP doubles titles Totaldoubles titles Earnings ($) Money list rank 1997–98 0 0 0 $16,530 375 1999 0 0 0 $83,736 184 2000-01 0 4 4 $408,960 n/a 2002 0 7 7 $411,864 48 2003 1 4 5 $593,034 32 2004 0 7 7 $488,127 45 2005 1 4 5 $743,772 24 2006 2 5 7 $810,930 19 2007 1 10 11 $894,035 18 2008 1 4 5 $807,231 28 2009 1 6 7 $872,959 22 2010 2 9 11 $1,143,970 18 2011 2 6 8 $1,051,334 21 2012 1 6 7 $916,603 26 2013 3 8 11 $1,730,604 12 20141910$1,493,4902015066$779,4662016033$782,5112017022$539,2312018235$1,778,1782019022$480,28366T2020011$38,356[n/a]Career*18106124$16,767,45234

Personal life Bryan is married to Nadia née Murgašová, who is from Trenčín, Slovakia. The couple resides in Florida, and together they have a son. The family shares a summer residence in Trenčín, sharing the street with Stanley Cup winners Marián Hossa, Marián Gáborík and Zdeno Chára.