Decade In Review: Doubles

Doubles Team Titles Leaders (2010-2019)

Americans Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won 63 titles over the past 10 years, including 46 between 2010-2014, when they were year-end No. 1s. Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, who contested the first of their 33 tour-level finals in May 2013 (at Nice), ended the decade on a high with five trophies in 2019.

Record-Breaking Twins

• The Bryan brothers led the team game and compiled record numbers, including five straight year-end No. 1 finishes (2010-2014). They will contest their final season as a team in 2020.

• The American twins went 63-21 in tour-level finals between 2010-2019, which included winning nine Grand Slam men’s doubles championships and 26 of their record-breaking 39 ATP Masters 1000 crowns. At Los Angeles, in July 2010, the pair captured their 62nd team crown to break a tie with Open Era titles record-holders Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde (61). Additionally, in September 2012 at the US Open, the Bryans passed the Australian team with their 12th major team title.

• Between the 2012 US Open and 2013 Wimbledon, the Bryans were the holders of all four majors simultaneously in a non-calendar year and 2013 — when they won the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon crowns — marking the first time since Anders Jarryd and John Fitzgerald in 1991 (Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open) that a team had held three major titles.

• In 2013, the Bryans won 22 matches at the four major championships, clinching year-end No. 1 in the ATP Doubles Team Rankings for a ninth time as early as 19 August (a record). They earned 11 titles from 14 finals — including three majors and five Masters 1000s.

• During a record 139 consecutive weeks at No. 1, between 25 February 2013 and 25 October 2015, the Bryans won four consecutive ATP Masters 1000 titles in consecutive seasons (2013 and 2014), highlighted by clinching silverware in six of their seven Masters 1000 final appearances in 2014.

• During that historic year, the Bryans won a 16th major team crown, and a record fifth US Open title, which also marked their 100th trophy together. In March, they became only the fourth team to complete the Indian Wells-Miami title double, following in the footsteps of Woodbridge and Woodforde (1996), Wayne Black and Sandon Stolle (1999), and Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor (2002), and, later, in October, at the Rolex Shanghai Masters, the Bryans became the first team to complete the Career Golden Masters of all nine Masters 1000 trophies.
• In October 2016 at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, the Bryans became the first doubles team in the Open Era to reach the 1,000 match wins milestones.

Records of Year-End No. 1 Teams (2010-2019)

Take a closer look at the match and finals records (by season) of year-end No. 1 doubles teams between 2010 and 2019.

Nestor First To Record 1,000 Doubles Match Wins

• Daniel Nestor, who turned pro in 1991 and said farewell to the sport in 2018, became the first player in the Open Era to record 1,000 doubles match wins on 11 January 2016, when he partnered Marcelo Melo to reach the Sydney quarter-finals.
• Six months later in Nottingham, as the proud owner of his 89th career title, the Canadian also extended his record of winning at least one tour-level title for 23 consecutive years.

Paes, Herbert/Mahut Complete Career Grand Slam

• Over the past decade, three players completed the career doubles Grand Slam. India’s Leander Paes, was the first to do so since Nestor in 2008, when the Indian partnered Radek Stepanek to the 2012 Australian Open title. Paes also became the sixth player to record 750 match wins or more on 7 April 2018. Paes will retire from professional tennis in 2020.
• Seven years later, at the same championship, Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut became the eighth team in the sport’s history — and the first pair since the Bryan brothers in 2006 — to capture all four major titles.
• Twenty three players have won the career doubles Grand Slam since Australia’s Adrian Quist in 1939.

Perfect Weeks At Nitto ATP Finals

• Two teams over the past 10 seasons swept to the Nitto ATP Finals title without the loss of a set in five matches at The O2 in London. Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau, clinched year-end No. 1 en route to the 2015 crown, while last month Herbert and Mahut capped a memorable season with the crown.

• Max Mirnyi and Nestor (2011), Henri Kontinen and John Peers (2016) and Mike Bryan and Jack Sock (2018) also completed their title-winning weeks with 5-0 records. Mirnyi retired from professional tennis in 2018 with 780 match wins and 52 doubles crowns.