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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Week 34 - US Open - Flushing Meadows, New York, NY, USA (hard) - MIXED DOUBLES

the addict · Tennis legend

OK. I'm guilty of not reading to the very end - I stopped at the blank draw !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ok, if wiki is to be believed, Jack is back in , with Jessica Pegula

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Mixed_doubles

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

worldtennismagazine.com/usta-announces-u-s-open-withdrawals-new-teams/25752

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

So we now have Jack and Pegula and Emma and Alcaraz.
Sinner is apparently looking for a new partner.

Var · Futures qualifying

JonH comes home wrote:
So we now have Jack and Pegula and Emma and Alcaraz.
Sinner is apparently looking for a new partner.

Lot of talk that Alcaraz will pull out as he progresses further at Cincinnati.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Wouldnt surprise me - the current field is below. Alcaraz, Zverev, Swiatek, Rybakina and Paolini (who is in Cinci singles and Doubles), Musetti and Errani (Cinci doubles) are all still in Cinci, as well as Sinner, and that event goes through to Monday with this due to start Tuesday. Quite possibly any of them could use that as a reason to pull out.

DIRECT ENTRANTS
Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper
Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud
Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz
Amanda Anisimova and Holger Rune
Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev
Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev
Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti

WILD CARDS
Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe
Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic
Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz
Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton
Venus Williams and Reilly Opelka
Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 16th of August 2025 07:05:37 AM

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 16th of August 2025 07:06:36 AM

9vicman · Futures qualifying

The USTA made a choice to release initial entries before the deadline as part of promotion and hype, but this constant changing of pairs is exhausting, and chips away at any credibility the event still had.

Emma Navarro would rather pick up some valuable singles points in Monterrey after a poor summer, dumping world No. 1 Sinner who she'd not properly met before they were paired together. And who may or may not re-partner.

And is Sinner allowed to pick someone who hadn't previously entered? Or instead break up another pair, who will then no longer be eligible for a wild card.

If Sinner doesn't re-partner, there's still a direct entry to come, but they haven't indicated who's next on the direct entry list as at the rankings deadline. And what happens if the next direct entry is already in as a wild card?

As others have indicated, there are likely to be a number of additional pull-outs, mostly from Cincinnatti participants, so the merry-go-round has a few rotations to go.

And if an all-star pairing wins under this truncated format, what does it mean anyway? Personally I'd love to see Shelton/Townsend or Vavassori/Errani win, but won't think any less of 'doubles' players if they don't.

And the tennis will be nothing like the Wimbledon mixed doubles final.

Jan · Hall of fame

I had virtually no interest in this event, and this is doing nothing to change that. What a mess (in my humble opinion!).

indiana · Tennis legend

Surely the winners of this will not be considered Grand Slam champions?!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Surely the winners of this will not be considered Grand Slam champions?!

I guess the question is as to who determines who a grand slam champion is? I guess its the tournament itself as anointed by the ITF, and if the US Open says they are their mixed doubles champions, then grand slam champs they will be.

Var · Futures qualifying

Anyone else getting the feeling that half of these pairs arent going to play and this might end up a fiasco anyway?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jan wrote:
I had virtually no interest in this event, and this is doing nothing to change that. What a mess (in my humble opinion!).

Yes.

I realise that the authorities believe (maybe rightly) that most tennis watchers only care about the top players, and this will be a nice way to whet the appetite for the singles (and normal doubles) that is about to kick off. And, if so, I wish them luck, and if everyone likes it, overall, then fine.

But, as far as I'm concerned, the qualis are where it's at, that's a really important event, it matters, I don't need anything else to get me ready for the main draw

And the only reason I'd watch mixed doubles normally is because (a) someone I particularly like is playing (normally not a top-20 style player) or (b) there's very little singles left in the last few days so, you're in the swing of the grand slam, it's all getting down to crunch time, the main event isn't going to start for two hours, so you watch a little of the mixed doubles to keep you going, and why not, it's fun.....

I will be watching/following qualis in the week before the singles, not some mixed doubles exhibition thingy (but I won't miss the mixed doubles from the normal format, I don't really care that it's gone)

the addict · Tennis legend

Var wrote:
Anyone else getting the feeling that half of these pairs arent going to play and this might end up a fiasco anyway?

If they were playing full matches then I wouldn't be surprised to see a number of withdrawals. But as they are playing short sets and only playing Tuesday and Wednesday I suspect some of them will use it instead of practice sessions to get used to the conditions and surface.

The powers that be might recognise this as a slam event, but real tennis fans will probably treat it as an exhibition even if the winners are entered in the record books.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Presumably the process , not communicated is:

Any of the 8 direct acceptances drop out and the non injured party gets to try and repair with a player high enough ranked to get them in.

If that happens, all done. If not, the next on end acceptance list ( as shown in wiki) ie those originally entered, get bumped up? They just havent told us what order that list is in or who is still on it.

If that happened to be a pair with a wildcard, the current wild card list would reduce by one pair. When the entries close - and they havent said when that is - theyll just add in as many wildcards as they need to make it 8 wildcards in total.

It may not be that - which presumably is how ordinary tournies work? - but they just havent communicated. And losing 4 original pairs in the first 16 announced looks a little poor, particularly if, as we all expect, more drop out in due course?