Emma Raducanu will team up with Carlos Alcaraz at this year’s US Open after a raft of star-studded pairings were announced for the revamped mixed doubles competition.
The 2021 women’s singles champion and current men’s world No2, also a singles champion at Flushing Meadows in 2022, will enter what is being described as a “reimagined” mixed doubles championship to take place as a standalone event before the main singles draw in New York across August 19 and 20.
Nine of the top 10 players from both the ATP and WTA world singles rankings are taking part in the new mixed doubles - which has a prize pot of $1million (£750,000) - at the US Open, with British men’s No1 Jack Draper set to partner China’s Olympic gold medalist Qinwen Zheng as one of 16 pairs now confirmed ahead of the July 28 entry deadline.
Men’s world No1 and defending singles champion Jannik Sinner will play alongside women’s No9 Emma Navarro, while women’s No1 Aryna Sabalenka is paired with Grigor Dimitrov. Novak Djokovic will partner compatriot Olga Danilovic and Iga Swiatek is poised to team up with Casper Ruud.
A STAR-STUDDED 🤩 lineup of teams have officially entered the reimagined US Open Mixed Doubles Championship!
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Partners Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa are also linking up, while the other high-profile doubles pairings announced include Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios, Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul, Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti, Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz, Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev, Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe, Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev, and Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton, plus Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori.
The top eight teams with the best combined singles ranking will be automatically entered into the mixed doubles draw, followed by eight wildcard pairings.
Holger Rune and French Open women’s singles champion Coco Gauff are the only two players in the respective current singles top-10 rankings not involved as things stand.
Raducanu recently played women’s doubles in the HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club with the player she has now replaced as British singles No1, Katie Boulter, with the duo losing in the quarter-finals to top seeds Erin Routliffe and Lyudmyla Kichenok.
Raducanu had been due to partner Andy Murray in the mixed doubles competition during the latter’s final run at Wimbledon last summer, but withdrew due to stiffness in her wrist as she concentrated on her singles campaign instead.
Five-time Grand Slam singles champion Alcaraz’s doubles experience includes partnering fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal in the men’s tournament at the Olympic Games in 2024, reaching the quarter-finals at Roland Garros.
