2006 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Doubles
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This page displays the progress of the Gentlemen's Doubles competition at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships
2006 Wimbledon Championships
The 2006 Wimbledon Championships began on 26 June and finished on 9 July 2006.-Gentlemen's singles: Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal 6-0 7-6 6-7 6-3-Ladies' singles: Amélie Mauresmo defeated Justine Henin-Hardenne 2-6 6-3 6-4...

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Seeds

The seeded pairs are listed below. Those in bold are still in the Championship, others show the round in which they were eliminated.

  1.   Bob Bryan
    Bob Bryan
    Robert Charles "Bob" Bryan is an American male professional tennis player. With his twin brother Mike, he has spent over 200 weeks as a World No. 1 doubles player. He has won eighteen Grand Slam titles, 11 in men's doubles and seven in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998...

     /   Mike Bryan
    Mike Bryan
    Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...

     (Champions)
  2.   Jonas Björkman
    Jonas Björkman
    Jonas Lars Björkman is a former World Number 4 Swedish professional tennis player. He is also a former World No. 1 in doubles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup Doubles championships....

     /   Max Mirnyi
    Max Mirnyi
    Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus.Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a...

     (Quarterfinals)
  3.   Mark Knowles
    Mark Knowles
    Mark Knowles is a former World number 1 doubles professional male tennis player from the Bahamas, who will go down as one of the greatest athletes of his country for his longevity within his sport and charitable contributions off the court.After being awarded a scholarship to the Nick...

     /   Daniel Nestor
    Daniel Nestor
    Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....

     (Semifinals)
  4.   Paul Hanley
    Paul Hanley (tennis)
    Paul Jason Hanley is a professional male tennis player from Australia, specialising in doubles. His parents, Jay and Judy, co-own a tennis centre, one of the main reasons Hanley pursued a career in the sport.He lost the 2005 Wimbledon finals in mixed doubles, playing with Tatiana Perebiynis...

     /   Kevin Ullyett
    Kevin Ullyett
    Kevin Ullyett is a former professional tennis player from Zimbabwe. His primary success on the tour has been in men's doubles. He has won 24 doubles titles, including the 2001 US Open and the 2005 Australian Open, both with Wayne Black...

     (Quarterfinals)
  5.   Jonathan Erlich
    Jonathan Erlich
    Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich is a professional Israeli tennis player...

     /   Andy Ram
    Andy Ram
    Andy Ram is a professional tennis player from Israel, and the first Israeli tennis player to win a seniors Grand Slam event . He plays more doubles than singles as he prefers doubles more and wins more matches...

     (Third Round)
  6.   Fabrice Santoro
    Fabrice Santoro
    Fabrice Vetea Santoro is a retired French professional male tennis player from Tahiti. Though not counted among the top ranked players, he had an unusually long professional career – with many of his accomplishments coming toward the end of his career – and he is popular among spectators and other...

     /   Nenad Zimonjić
    Nenad Zimonjic
    Nenad Zimonjić is a professional Serbian tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 3 in men's doubles. He is the second tennis doubles player from Serbia to hold the World No.1, after Slobodan Živojinović.-Career:...

     (Final)
  7.   Martin Damm
    Martin Damm
    Martin Damm was a professional tennis player from Czechia. He is 6'2" 195 lb and is best known as a doubles player . ,his highest singles ranking 42 as of August 1997...

     /   Leander Paes
    Leander Paes
    Leander Adrian Paes, pronounced pās, is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament...

     (Semifinals)
  8.   Simon Aspelin
    Simon Aspelin
    Simon Aspelin is a former professional tennis doubles player from Sweden who turned professional in 1998...

     /   Todd Perry
    Todd Perry
    ----Todd Perry is a presently inactive tour professional tennis player from Australia.Perry turned turned professional in 1998. He played more doubles than singles, and his most usual partner was the Swedish Simon Aspelin...

     (Quarterfinals)



  1.   Stephen Huss
    Stephen Huss (tennis)
    Stephen Huss , is a professional tennis player from Australia. He is also citizen of Sweden....

     /   Wesley Moodie
    Wesley Moodie
    Wesley Moodie is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Wesley is now retired.-Early life and college career:...

     (Third Round)
  2.   Mariusz Fyrstenberg
    Mariusz Fyrstenberg
    Mariusz Fyrstenberg is a left-handed Polish professional tennis player whose speciality is in doubles. His current partner is Marcin Matkowski; they have been playing together since 2003....

     /   Marcin Matkowski
    Marcin Matkowski
    Marcin Matkowski is a right-handed Polish professional tennis player whose speciality is in doubles. His current partner is Mariusz Fyrstenberg; they have been playing together since 2003, he occasionally plays mixed doubles with Caroline Wozniacki.Matkowski and Fyrstenberg qualified as the eighth...

     (First Round)
  3.   Lukáš Dlouhý
    Lukáš Dlouhý
    Lukáš Dlouhý is a professional Czech tennis player on the ATP Tour. A doubles specialist, Dlouhý reached a career-high ranking of World Number 5 on June 22, 2009.-2006-2008:...

     /   Pavel Vízner
    Pavel Vízner
    Pavel Vízner is a professional male tennis player from the Czech Republic. Vízner has reached the French Open final twice, having had turned professional in 1990 and achieved a career high doubles ranking of World Number 5 on September 10, 2007.- Career :While Vízner had played tournaments in 1988...

     (Quarterfinals)
  4.   František Čermák
    František Cermák
    ----František Čermák is a Czech professional tennis player. Čermák turned pro in 1998. He has won 26 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, and has been a finalist 19 times. He reached his career high doubles ranking of World No. 14 on February 1, 2010...

     /   Leoš Friedl
    Leoš Friedl
    Leoš Friedl is a Czech professional tennis player best known for his doubles play with František Čermák. He is coached by Lubomir Gerla. In his career, he has won 15 top-level doubles titles and $1,027,625 in prize money...

     (First Round)
  5.   Mahesh Bhupathi
    Mahesh Bhupathi
    Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament...

     /   Alexander Waske
    Alexander Waske
    Alexander Waske is a professional male tennis player from Germany. He turned pro in 2000.On June 12, 2006, Waske achieved his career-high singles ranking: World No. 89.-Doubles: 7 :-External links:...

     (First Round)
  6.   Wayne Black
    Wayne Black
    Wayne Hamilton Black is a former professional male tennis player from Zimbabwe.Black is the son of Don and Velia Black and the brother of Cara Black and Byron Black, also professional tennis players. He attended the University of Southern California and was an All-American in singles and doubles...

     /   Jeff Coetzee
    Jeff Coetzee
    Jeff Coetzee is a South African professional tennis player and competes regularly on the ATP tour, as a doubles specialist....

     (First Round)
  7.   Martín García /   Sebastián Prieto
    Sebastián Prieto
    Sebastián Prieto is a professional tennis player from Argentina.Primarily a doubles specialist, Prieto has won 9 doubles titles in his career. He began playing for the Argentina Davis Cup team in 1999....

     (Third Round)
  8.   Chris Haggard
    Chris Haggard
    Chris Haggard is a professional tennis player from South Africa.After finishing runner-up in the NAIA national men's tennis championship singles draw in 1991 while playing for Auburn University-Montgomery, Haggard turned pro in 1993. He has won six ATP Tour doubles titles and finished runner-up a...

     /   Dominik Hrbatý
    Dominik Hrbatý
    Dominik Hrbatý is a retired professional tennis player from Slovakia.-Personal life:Hrbatý was born on 4 January 1978 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. His father was an architecture engineer and his younger brother is an umpire...

     (First Round)

    Finals

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