Bob Bryan
Bob Bryan
Robert Charles "Bob" Bryanis 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. The brothers became the second men's doubles team to complete...
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth29 April 1978
CityCamarillo, CA
We got 80% of what we wanted. They're not going to eliminate doubles.
Two could've been out, but you gotta play them in that situation.
We expected a difficult match because the Belgians had the support of the public,
We felt we needed to take a stand for doubles.
We became competitors, but we didn't compete against each other. And we didn't become rivals like a lot of brothers do. We love playing doubles together where we can share the victory.
We also knew that Olivier Rochus had won the doubles at the French Open . But it was logical that we won and had the match been played in the United States, it would not have taken close to three hours but an hour and a half without doubt.
We were down break points pretty much every game in the third. It was just pure relief and happiness and excitement at the end.
We were feeling euphoric and light headed. I was wondering what the deal was. Everyone's ears were popping, popping, popping, so we thought that was a little weird. Then the pilot turned around and said we'd have to take the plane down to 4,000 feet. The pilot later said that if we had kept rising we all could have passed out. It could have been a Payne Stewart situation .
To do it at the U.S. Open, it's worth giving up five in a row.
Unbelievable. I had nothing left in my body by the end of that match. It was so emotional. There was a lot of energy there, they were doing chest pumps, we were doing chest pumps.
We got on them really early and I was hitting my wide serve really well on the ad-court. It went well the whole time.
We're not too pleased about it. But we'll see how it goes.
We're going to be the U.S. Open champions playing that match,
When we have energy and we're happy, we play our best tennis.