Happy (Belated) Birthday! 37 Trivia Hits About the Bryan Brothers

The ballyhooed Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, deserve everything they get as accolades and positive energy go. They are exceedingly nice gents, they have stood the test of time in their careers, and, quite simply, they've got game. Here, on the occasion of their 37th birthday, are 30-odd factoids celebrating their greatness and personalities. With further ado ...

37. This Bryan Bros Golf channel on YouTube? Yeah, that's not these guys.

36. In 2015, they've already given us this wonderfully brief and absolute beaut of a point, in taking out Jack Sock and Vasek Pospisil in the Miami Open final:

35. Lest we forget, though, that "PospiSock" pair bested the Bryans when it really counted: in the 2014 Wimbledon doubles final.

34. The brothers were banished from playing each other in tournaments ahead of turning pro. If they ultimately had to face each other in an event, their parents made one of them default to the other, and vice versa the next time out when it happened.

33. Both brothers rushed a fraternity at Stanford University, that being Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Knowing their knack for playing practical jokes, it's not hard to imagine their own patented brand of Animal House antics playing out among the brethren therein.

32. Suffice it to say, Mike likes to mix it up on social media:

31. Meanwhile, Bob can be downright adorable (and short?), in retrospect:

30. Surely this must be one of the most endearing things they've done:

29. Mother Kathy played pro tennis, even landing in the Wimbledon mixed-doubles quarterfinals in 1965.

28. The right-handed Mike was born his southpaw brother's elder by two minutes.

27. In addition to harboring two minutes more in this life than Bob, Mike also boasts two more ATP World Tour doubles titles: 108 to little bro's 106.

26. Mike was the first of the brothers to win a Grand Slam, the 2002 US Open mixed doubles title with Lisa Raymond. Mike and Raymond also went on to win the mixed doubles titles at the 2003 French Open and 2012 Wimbledon."

25. Bob outdoes Mike in that department, however: He has won seven mixed doubles titles (2003 U.S. Open with Katarina Srebotnik, 2004 U.S. Open with Vera Zvonareva, 2006 U.S. Open with Martina Navratilova, 2008 French Open with Victoria Azarenka, 2008 Wimbledon with Sam Stosur, 2009 French Open with Liezel Huber and 2010 U.S. Open with Liezel Huber).

24. They've even figured out a way to sport a polished-yet-grizzled look, just in time for the gritty clay-court season.

23. Bryan spawn Micaela used to sit in their newly acquired trophies at winners' ceremonies. Yes, even when she obviously hated it.

22. Poison or a cloned Andre Agassi? The world may never know.

21. Beaten in the third round at this year's Australian Open, the Bryan bros failed to reach the quarterfinals in back-to-back majors for the first time since the 2000-2001 seasons.

20. Yes, yes, they are a musical duo. And once upon a time Novak Djokovic guested with them on a song.

19. Mike once seized a point in Wimbledon doubles by flinging his racquet at the ball as it zoomed down the line past him. Although the tennis rulebook states that the racquet must remain clenched in a player's hand, not thrown at a ball, the chair umpire indeed awarded the point to Team Bryan.

18. When one types in "bryan brothers" on YouTube, the first item that comes up is ... "golf trick shots." Ah well.

17. The brothers debuted on the tour in 1995 at the U.S. Open. They lost in the first round.

16. Mike's wife, Lucille Williams, is British. They married in 2012 after meeting at Wimbledon, where she was a tournament volunteer.

15. Bob's wife, Michelle Alvarez, was actually a family friend of many years ahead of the two tying the knot in 2010.

14. Of course the pair has a Davis Cup title from 2007, alongside Andy Roddick and James Blake. But what you may not know is that they've both competed in Davis Cup singles play in addition to flexing their doubles prowess. Bob is 4-2 in DC singles action, while Mike is 0-1.

13. Their middle names? Charles (Bob) and Carl (Mike). Because why not?

12. As of the 2013 Wimbledon championships, they became the only ATP tandem to hold all four Grand Slam titles simultaneously.

11. A Google search of "bryan brothers chest bump" returns about 16,000 results.

10. About those patented chest bumps: They have secrets. http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2013/09/01/the-bryan-brothers-secrets-of-the-chest-bump/

9. Long live @MicaelaBryan, who has 12,300-plus Twitter followers. She hasn't "tweeted" since 2013, though.

8. Bobby Bryan, Jr., joined her on Twitter in late December 2013. His handlers have rarely tweeted on his behalf.

7. By the by, Bob himself has nearly 146,000 Twitter followers. Mike, who joined later, has more than 104,000.

6. The brothers have 143,000 Facebook followers as a pair.

5. Forget for a second their sheer number of titles together (106). They've also landed in 51 pro finals that they didn't win. Oh, what could have been.

4. They're fans of giving back. Exhibit A: The Bryan Bros. Foundation.

3. With a healthy selfishness, they have held the co-No. 1 ranking in men's doubles for 413 weeks, a surefire record if ever there was one. That's basically the equivalent of week in, week out, for eight years.

2. They have a career Double Slam, the only players to accomplish that, having won all four Slam doubles titles at least twice each.

1. They have finished the ATP season co-ranked No. 1 a record 10 times. I know some said the same about the records set by the previous best-ever doubles pair, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, but don't look for that feat to be matched anytime soon.

What's your own favorite morsel of info or memory of these heralded Bryan brothers? Sound off below.

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