MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) American twins Bob and Mike Bryan won their fourth Australian Open doubles title, defeating Daniel Nestor of Canada and Serbian Nenad Zimonjic 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3 on Saturday. The top-seeded Bryans picked up their eighth Grand Slam title in doubles. They faced two break points in the ninth

Serena Williams' status in the sports world and the larger global culture continues to expand, as only it can. In a new piece that debuted on his HBO show, Any Given Wednesday, sports authority Bill Simmons compares her to some of the greatest all-time boxers, including Muhammad Ali and Mike

This season, with Bob Bryan back from injury, it was great news just to see the Bryans on court in Indian Wells. They would lose in their second match, to Dominic Inglot and Franko Skugor in a deciding tiebreak. Back in 2012, Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan completed the “Golden

FRIBOURG, Switzerland (AP)—Given a supremely tough draw in the Davis Cup, the United States is off to an exhilarating start. It swept Roger Federer and Switzerland in the first round, with Mardy Fish and Mike Bryan winning the doubles match on clay, a surface selected by Federer to exploit what

After Bob and Mike Bryan defeated France's Michael Llodra and Julien Benneteau, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4) to give the United States a 2-1 lead in the Davis Cup quarterfinals in Monte Carlo, U.S. captain Jim Courier said he's confident in John Isner, who can clinch the tie beating French No.

NEW YORK (AP) The top-ranked Bryan brothers lost a first-round doubles match at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since 2001, making an early exit from the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Unseeded Ivo Karlovic and Frank Moser beat the American twins 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. Bob and Mike Bryan

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP)—The U.S. Davis Cup team is still considered the favorite against Chile despite playing on a clay surface in the first-round Davis Cup series. The Americans feature No. 8 Andy Roddick, No. 32 John Isner and the top-ranked doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan. Jim Courier, a

The rest of the men's and women's teams vie for quarterfinal spots at the Australian Open. Doubles Take gives you your daily preview. If you’re a team facing Bob and Mike Bryan at this year’s Australian Open, perhaps your best bet is to let them win the first set because

PARIS (AP) Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez won the French Open on Saturday for their first Grand Slam doubles title, denying Bob and Mike Bryan a 17th major trophy. The duo became the first Spanish pair to win at Roland Garros in 26 years with a 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3

Brazil’s Marcelo Melo and the United States’ Bob Bryan explain a shouting incident during their doubles rubber, won by Melo and Bruno Soares, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (7), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. It occurred after Bob and Mike Bryan won the second set. “It was 6-all in the tiebreaker in the second,

Hold tight, Spin fans, as we're in for another video-drenched episode of this column. See below for the ultimate amuse-bouche, featuring the Williams sisters, Bryan brothers, and the greatest men's tennis player the globe has ever seen, among others. Let's get to it: TANDEM TRICKS Bob and Mike Bryan have

WAGS ALERT: Mardy Fish's wife Stacey Fish, Mike Bryan's fiancée Lucille Williams, and Fabio Fognini's girlfriend Svetoslava Simeonova are featured in a new "ATP Uncovered" clip (see below). Interestingly, Williams drove player cars at Wimbledon before she became the doubles star's leading lady, and Stacey Fish started her own jewelry

Mylan World TeamTennis celebrates its 40th birthday this year. For more on WTT, including this season's schedule, click here. With an all-Mylan World TeamTennis final coming up in men’s doubles, the French Open is home to an early scrimmage between top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan of the California Dream

According to James Blake, there has been no decision made on whether Sam Querrey or Steve Johnson will be selected for the United States’ first-round Davis Cup tie, while John Isner and the doubles team of Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan “are pretty much locked in.” Captain Jim Courier will

Roger Federer denies that he took his teammate Stanislas Wawrinka to task for his poor play during the United States' 5-0 shut out of Switzerland in Fribourg. Federer and Wawrinka lost a four-set match to Mardy Fish and Mike Bryan, which clinched the tie for the U.S. "I did have

It's certainly good to have them back. Bob and Mike Bryan played an epic point in Delray Beach during a tight 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) win over Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies. The four really put on a show for the southern Florida crowd. Bob Bryan returned from hip replacement

Another Cabalist weighs in. Tony Lance* writes: *The real eye-opener in the U.S. vs. Croatia tie wasn’t Andre Agassi’s or Andy Roddick’s loss to Ivan Ljubicic. It was the failure of the Bryan brothers, Mike and Bob, to beat Ljubicic and Mario Ancic in doubles. On paper it shouldn’t have

Coaching talk is all the rage on this closing weekend of the U.S. Open. The men's semifinals featured Goran Ivanisevic (Marin Cilic) against Stefan Edberg (Roger Federer) and ​Michael Chang (Kei Nishikori) versus Boris Becker (Novak Djokovic). What's more, ​Mike Bryan has spoken out to say that he, like Patrick

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The Bryan brothers are more like Warner Bros. at the Australian Open. The world's best men's doubles pair, American twins Mike and Bob Bryan, have been making mini-movies from behind the scenes of international tennis and posting them online, where they are getting a growing following. The

TORONTO (AP) — U.S. Open winner Bianca Andreescu is Canada’s athlete of the year, the first tennis player so honored. She won the 2019 Lou Marsh Trophy on Monday after becoming the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title, defeating Serena Williams in the Open final. The 19-year-old