Stacey Allaster, the US Open tournament director, addressed the recent change to the mixed doubles format. Her comments, shared through Tennis.com, focused on why the adjustment was made for the 2025 edition.

Tennis fans got treated to pure magic at the US Open mixed doubles, but sometimes even wizardry can’t save you from a disappointing exit. Carlos Alcaraz pulled off what might be the shot of the tournament – maybe the year – leaving his partner Emma Raducanu looking like she’d just witnessed actual sorcery.

Grand Slam singles champions such as Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Iga Swiatek and Madison Keys will be playing for extra money — $1 million to the winning duo — and trying to get their hands on a trophy in the U.

The new event wanted to use singles stars to put mixed doubles on a pedestal. Two masters of the discipline have stolen the show.

The US Open Mixed Doubles Championship finally introduced the revamp of the mixed doubles category on Tuesday. Thereby, stars collided and a new format was exhibited. However, can the tournament be declared a hit?

Viewers in the UK can watch the mixed doubles at the US Open live on Sky Sports Tennis. The event is being streamed on ESPN in the United States. The full 16-team field was decided by the top-8 singles rankings combined, and eight wildcard picks.

The No. 1-ranked Sinner, the defending champion in singles at Flushing Meadows, was supposed to compete in mixed doubles with Katerina Siniakova.

In the U.S. Open, the format is being redesigned as a popularity contest engineered to generate buzz.

Williams is a longtime resident of Palm Beach Gardens while Opelka has lived in the Delray Beach/Boca Raton area since he was a teenager.