Comment: For all the star-studded pairs and $1m winning purse, the new-look mixed doubles in New York lacks Grand Slam prestige and has largely disregarded doubles specialists, as Kieran Jackson expla

SOME of the world’s best tennis players will be joining forces for a new reimagined mixed doubles tournament. Organisers of the US Open are attempting to push the mixed doubles into a

The winning duo will take home a $1 million prize, which is higher than most prize purses for mixed doubles major tournaments. The 16 teams will play over two days. The first round and quarterfinals take place on Tuesday inside the main show courts at the USTA National Tennis Center. The semifinals and championship match will be on Wednesday night.

Play in the U.S. Open is scheduled to begin Sunday on the hard courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.

British number ones Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper will face each other in this week's new-look US Open mixed doubles event in New York.

Nonconformity is a quintessential US Open trait. From being the first to introduce a final-set tiebreak way back in 1970 to allowing in-game coaching in 2022, the season’s last tennis Major has defied tradition multiple times.

Jannik Sinner has a new partner for the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament, where Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu will face the No. 1-seeded team in the first round.

Mixed doubles is not played at any tournament outside the majors. The winning teams, with occasional exceptions, tend to be completely unknown to the general public. Perhaps you were aware that Katerina Siniakova and Sem Verbeek lifted the Wimbledon title five weeks ago, but I certainly had to look it up.