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1/22/12 11:02 PM | Johan Lindahl
Bob Bryan is hoping that his luck holds out as his wife prepares to give birth half a world away in Miami while her husband contends for the doubles title at the Australian Open.
Bob and twin brother Mike are top seed at the event which they have won for the past three years.
The birth is due on Saturday, which also happens to be the day of the Open final. Should timings on both sides of the Pacific go as per plan, the birth could be another of the long-distance affairs which are not that unusual in tennis.
Frenchman Gilles Simon had to rush home from a recent US Open a few days after the birth of his son while a decade ago, Andre Pavel of Romanian travelled through the night to and from Paris for the birth of his child, returning in time to play a semi-final.
As might be expected, Roger Federer's twins arrived with impeccable timing between tournaments in July, 2009.
Bryan, 33, is hoping for the best anyway. “I’m going to stick around until the tournament’s over, but hopefully I won’t have to have a Skype baby, I don’t want a Skype baby.”
Bob and Mike Bryan own 11 Grand Slam doubles titles and would love to wrap up an even dozen next weekend. The father-to-be is trying to bury his guilty feeling at not being present for the impending birth.
“It’s tough, I definitely feel a little guilty, but Michelle is like: ‘Go stay focused. Don’t even think about the baby.’ So she’s totally on board with this tennis thing,” he told US media.
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