Bob and Mike Bryan are no strangers to rewriting the record books. Today they etched another achievement into their illustrious careers. The twins defeated Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 6-4, 7-6 (7-1) to win the Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Invitation Doubles for a fifth consecutive year, moving past Mark Philippoussis for sole possession of the tournament record.
Murray and Soares arrived unbeaten, having dropped just a single set through three matches in Group A They pushed the Bryans into a second-set tiebreak before the Bob and Mike closed out the match 7-1 never trailing in the tiebreak.
The Bryans’ toughest test of the tournament came early, a 20-18 marathon match tiebreak against Fabio Fognini and Lleyton Hewitt after the two sides split the first two sets 6-3, 3-6. The path got smoother from there as they dispatched Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau 6-3, 6-3, and then emerged unscathed in the group in dominant fashion, with a 6-1, 6-2 win over James Blake and Kyle Edmund.
Entering the week, Bob and Mike were tied with Philippoussis at four Gentlemen’s Invitation Doubles titles apiece. Philippoussis captured titles in 2013 and 2014 with Thomas Enqvist, in 2017 with Lleyton Hewitt, and in 2018 with Tommy Haas.
Sunday’s win broke that tie. Five titles in five years, from 2022 through 2026, is a run without precedent at this event, and it comes on top of three Wimbledon Men’s Doubles Championships won by the twins in their prime in 2006, 2011, and 2013.
Retired from full-time competition since 2020, Bob and Mike remain the most decorated doubles team in tennis history, with 16 Grand Slam titles earned together and induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2025. Six years into retirement, the twins are still finding new record books to rewrite at the All England Club.