Spectacular awaits” was the tagline adorning every advertising hoarding inside Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong for this week’s revamped US Open mixed doubles tournament. The final verdict may be slightly more lukewarm.

Carlos Alcaraz of Spain and Jannik Sinner of Italy during the Men's Singles Final match on day twelve of the Cincinnati Open 2025 at Lindner Family Tennis Center on August 18, 2025 in Mason, Ohio. The ATP Tour then released quotes from Sinner in which he spoke about the U.S. Open.

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

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.

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?

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

Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev are set to play along with Iga Swiatek and 45-year-old veteran Venus Williams when the US Open mixed doubles takes centre stage like never before. Instead of being crammed in amid the singles and doubles matches at the main draw event,

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