Wimbledon 2012: Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen rest easy while opponents Bryan brothers battle through busy schedule It took the US pair two hours and 46 minutes to set up the semi-final date with Marray and Nielsen, needing five sets to overcome their unseeded compatriots Scott Lipsky and Rajeev Ram under a beating sun on Wimbledon's No1 Court, 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. Bob Bryan, top seeded in the mixed doubles with Liezel Huber, took 70 minutes to beat Israel's Andy Ram and the Czech Kveta Peschke 3-6, 6-2, 6-1. It meant Bob Bryan played eight sets, 77 games and a total of 420 individual points less than 24 hours before the Marray semi-final. "It's a lot of points, a lot of tennis; but it's what you train for, times like these," Mike Bryan told The Telegraph. Bob added: "We came off court and had an ice bath for 12 minutes, a massage, 35 minutes and then rolled on foam rollers for 20 or 30 minutes." "The massage was one guy on each leg for both of us," said Mike. Four hands. Their comfortable interjections are like their tennis - a rapid rally of words. They are bidding to become the most successful doubles partnership in history here, having already equalled Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde's 11 Grand Slam titles. "We're not really thinking about the record too much, just about winning our next Grand Slam," said Mike. To that end, they have been studying Marray and Nielsen. "We've watched a lot of their tennis this week, they've played five-setters," he added. They both return well and they're a solid team, with not a lot of weaknesses. It's pretty cool [that Nielsen and Marray have only played together three times in their career]. You see that often in doubles. There's a honeymoon phase where everything is new and fresh. We're playing a tough team and we have to do things well to get there. We just need a good night's sleep. Evan Hoyt and Luke Bambridge kept alive the prospect of having British players either side of the net in the boys" doubles final, as each won their respective round-of-16 matches on Thursday.