At age 34, the Bryan brothers posed with thetrophy with Bob's infant daughter and chatted about Mike's upcoming wedding.
They've now set the Open-era Grand Slam title record, butthe pair doesn't plan to stop adding to that total anytime soon.
The American twins won the U.S. Open men's doubles final instraight sets Friday for a 12th Grand Slam championship. They had been tiedwith Australian greats Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde for the most in the Openera, which started in 1968.
"We looked up to the Woodies, and to steal all theirrecords is unbelievable because we idolize those guys," Mike said."They're one of the reasons we play doubles."
The Bryans, seeded No. 2, beat Leander Paes and RadekStepanek 6-3, 6-4 without facing a break point.
In the third round, they were two points from losing thematch in a second-set tiebreaker when Bob pulled off a between-the-legs trickshot — and they went on to win in three sets. After needing two tiebreakers inthe quarterfinals to move on, the Bryans won their last two matches with littlehassle.
Last month, they achieved their biggest goal of 2012 bywinning their first Olympic gold medals at the London Games.
"It did take pressure off," Mike said. "Wetalked about it before each match. We're like, 'Let's swing free. We have thegold.' We came into this probably a little fatigued and just running onadrenaline from the Olympics. We could see the finish line."
Bob was passing around his medal after Friday's match,convinced it's a good luck charm. Golfer Sergio Garcia wore it during thetennis tournament in Cincinnati last month, then promptly posted his first PGATour victory in four years.
The brothers plan to stick around long enough to defendtheir title in Rio in 2016. That leaves plenty of opportunities to pad theirGrand Slam record.
"Hopefully we can snag a couple a year, one ortwo," Mike said. "We got one this year. You do the math."
They had been stuck on 11 since 2011 Wimbledon, losing toPaes and Stepanek in this year's Australian Open final.
"We had a rough 12 months," Bob said. "Wetook a lot of lumps, but now that's all forgotten. It's sweeter thanever."
The Bryans also tied the Open-era record with their fourthU.S. Open championship, matching Bob Lutz and Stan Smith. They had been indanger of finishing a year without a major title for the first time since '04.
"Still would have been a good year because we have theOlympics," Mike said. "But we wanted to keep the streak alive ofeight years with a Slam."
Next on the list of goals: the Davis Cup match againstSpain.
Paes, from India, and Stepanek, from the Czech Republic,were seeded fifth. They were under pressure on their serves the entire matchand saved 10 of 12 break points, but one break in each set was plenty for theBryans. The brothers combined to get in 79 percent of their first serves, andeven when they didn't, they won 73 percent of points on their second serves.
Mike isn't the sentimental type, insisting he hasn't criedsince high school — he thought the Olympic medal ceremony might bring the tearsbut even that failed to work. So he and Bob weren't going to offer too manydeep thoughts about this latest milestone.
At least one member of the family is relishing it, though.
"My dad gets a real kick out of the records," Bobsaid. "He has a spreadsheet on his computer. I'm sure he's updating itright now."