Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Fabrice Santoro and Nenad Zimonjić in the final, 6–3, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 to win the gentlemen's doubles tennis title at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships. With the win, the Bryan brothers completed the career Grand Slam. It was their record seventh consecutive major final.
Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie were the defending champions, but lost in the third round to Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry.
The quarterfinal match between Mark Knowles & Daniel Nestor and Aspelin & Perry became, at the time, the longest match ever played at Wimbledon, lasting 6 hours and 9 minutes, with Knowles & Nestor winning the match 5–7, 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3, 23–21. This record was eventually broken at the 2010 Championships, in the first round men's singles match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut. It remains the longest doubles match played at any major, and that record is highly unlikely to be broken, since all majors now play best-of-3 sets.
Seeds
Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan (champions) Jonas Björkman / Max Mirnyi (quarterfinals) Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor (semifinals) Paul Hanley / Kevin Ullyett (quarterfinals) Jonathan Erlich / Andy Ram (third round) Fabrice Santoro / Nenad Zimonjić (final) Martin Damm / Leander Paes (semifinals) Simon Aspelin / Todd Perry (quarterfinals) Stephen Huss / Wesley Moodie (third round) Mariusz Fyrstenberg / Marcin Matkowski (first round) Lukáš Dlouhý / Pavel Vízner (quarterfinals) František Čermák / Leoš Friedl (first round) Mahesh Bhupathi / Alexander Waske (first round) Wayne Black / Jeff Coetzee (first round) Martín García / Sebastián Prieto (third round) Chris Haggard / Dominik Hrbatý (first round)
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
External links
2006 Wimbledon Championships – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation