Bryans, Clijsters, McEnroe Host Hall of Fame’s Letters to Greatness

By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Thursday, March 6, 2025
Photo credits: Fred Mullane/International Tennis Hall of Fame

The International Tennis Hall of Fame is hosting a pre-graduation celebration for its class of 2025.

You’re invited to the party.

In an interactive innovation, the International Tennis Hall of Fame is inviting tennis fans to record messages to 2025 inductees Maria Sharapova and Mike and Bob Bryan through its Letters to Greatness booth on the grounds of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

Yesterday, former doubles world No. 1 Grand Slam champions Mike and Bob Bryan, former singles and doubles world No. 1 Kim Clijsters and the Hall of Fame’s Patrick McEnroe, who captained the United States to its last Davis Cup championship in 2007, were on hand in Indian Wells to launch the Hall of Fame’s Letters to Greatness booth.

McEnroe and Clijsters were joined by ITHF CEO, Dan Faber and upcoming 2025 Inductees, Bob and Mike Bryan, to kick off the event by recording their own Letters to Greatness – congratulatory messages to Maria Sharapova and the Bryan Brothers ahead of their formal induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame later this summer.

Fans recorded both video messages and left written messages for the Bryan brothers and Maria Sharapova.

The Letters to Greatness booth will remain open throughout the remainder of the BNP Paribas Open, where tennis fans will have the chance to record or pen their own personal messages to the Class of 2025.

So if you’re planning to visit the 2025 BNP Paribas Open, please stop by the booth and create a message for the Bryans and Sharapova while re-enacting the famed flying Bryan Bros chest bump.