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New Indian Express
a day ago
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- New Indian Express
Venus Williams, Amanda Anisimova are among the players added to US Open mixed doubles list
Venus Williams is paired with Reilly Opelka, and Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova is joined by Holger Rune on Monday's updated list of teams that have signed up to try to enter the newfangled U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament next month. A total of 25 duos are on the latest entry list released by the U.S. Tennis Association. Only 16 will make the field for the Aug. 19-20 competition that will pay the winning team USD 1 million. The deadline for entries is a week away. That's when the eight duos with the highest combined singles rankings will gain official acceptance for the event. The USTA will select the other eight teams and give them wild-card invitations. The mixed doubles was moved to the week before the start of competition in the singles brackets. Singles matches begin on Aug. 24. In addition to Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion who is 45 and entered the tournament in Washington this week for her first competition in more than a year, with Opelka, and Anisimova with Rune, other new teammates announced Monday include Katie Boulter and Alex De Minaur, who are engaged to be married; Donna Vekic and Hubert Hurkacz; Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev; Iva Jovic and Jenson Brooksby; Gaby Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime; Demi Schuurs and Tallon Griekspoor; Katerina Siniakova and Marcelo Arevalo; Desirae Krawczyk and Evan King; and Su-Wei Hsieh and Jan Zielinski. The original group of potential participants was released last month and included Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz; Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner; Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud; Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti; Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz; Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev; Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev; Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe; Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul; Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov; Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic; Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios; Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton; and last year's U.S. Open mixed doubles champions, Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori. It's a star-studded cast that is quite different from the mix of doubles specialists usually found in a Grand Slam mixed doubles bracket. Some criticized the changes when they were announced in February, with Errani and Vavassori calling the new format a 'pseudo-exhibition focused only on entertainment and show' that would shut out true doubles players.
Reuters
a day ago
- Sport
- Reuters
ATP roundup: Matteo Arnaldi, Reilly Opelka score big wins in D.C.
July 21 - Italy's Matteo Arnaldi saved four match points en route to a 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (2) comeback win over Germany's Daniel Altmaier in the opening round of the Mubadala Citi D.C. Open on Monday in Washington. Arnaldi faced triple match point in the 10th game of the third set but battled back to extend the match. Then, Arnaldi led 6-5 only for Altmaier to save two match points and force the tiebreaker, which was all Arnaldi. The 24-year-old reached the quarterfinals of the Madrid Open but is still searching for his first ATP title. Reilly Opelka also got off to a fine start by defeating Murphy Cassone 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 6-3. This one did not see a match point saved, but Opelka served up 23 aces in the two-hour, 21-minute affair and won a whopping 53 of 61 first-service points (86.9 percent). Americans who joined Opelka as winners on Monday included Mackenzie McDonald, Ethan Quinn and Learner Tien. Hungarian Fabian Marozsan, Frenchman Alexandre Muller and Brits Cameron Norrie and Daniel Evans also advanced. The final two matches of the night were set to pit Jenson Brooksby against Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka and France's Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard against Australia's Aleksandar Vukic. Generali Open No. 6 seed Arthur Rinderknech of France survived a test from Argentina's Facundo Bagnis and prevailed 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3 in a two-hour, 47-minute marathon in the Round of 32 in Kitzbuhel, Austria. The other seeded players in action also survived: No. 7 seed Francisco Comesana of Argentina beat Tristan Boyer 6-3, 7-6 (1), and No. 8 Marton Fucsovics of Hungary outlasted Austrian wild card Joel Schwaerzler 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. Slovakian qualifier Norbert Gombos survived Frenchman Hugo Gaston 6-3, 6-4, and Kazakhstan's Alexander Shevchenko rallied past Daniel Elahi Galan of Colombia 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Plava Laguna Croatia Open Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland cruised past Venezuelan qualifier Alvaro Guillen Meza 6-4, 6-1 in his first-round match in Umag, Croatia. The three-time Grand Slam champ hasn't won an ATP tournament since May 2017. His next opponent will be No. 4 seed Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who had a first-round bye. No. 5 Mariano Navone of Argentina sped past Chile's Tomas Barrios Vera 6-1, 6-2 in 70 minutes, but other seeded players weren't as lucky. Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili toppled No. 6 Roberto Carballes Baena of Spain 6-3, 6-4, and Spanish qualifier Pablo Llamas Ruiz beat No. 7 Kamil Majchrzak of Poland 6-3, 6-4. Also advancing were Frenchmen Terence Atmane and Titouan Droguet, Spaniard Carlos Taberner and Taiwan's Chun-Hsin Tseng. --Field Level Media
New York Times
2 days ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Venus Williams and Reilly Opelka among pairs hoping to compete in US Open mixed doubles
The U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament keeps getting more intriguing. With the deadline for registration approaching next week, the United States Tennis Association released an updated list of teams hoping to compete for the $1million in prize money during the week before the singles and doubles competitions take place. Advertisement The new list of teams, 25 in all – nine more than the roster the USTA released last month – had another collection of big names, including Venus Williams, the 45-year-old seven-time singles Grand Slam winner, who wants to team up with Reilly Opelka, literally the biggest player in the sport, when measured by height. Opelka is nearly seven feet tall. Amanda Anisimova, a finalist in singles at Wimbledon, wants to play with Holger Rune. Some notable names have also dropped off. Jack Draper and Zheng Qinwen are no longer on the list. Both are injured. Draper pulled out of the Canadian Open with an arm injury; Zheng just underwent elbow surgery. Stefano Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa have taken a pass. They, too, have been dealing with chronic injuries. Also, after two years of romance, they recently unfollowed each other on social media and removed pictures from their individual channels – never a good sign for a mixed doubles partnership, on or off the court. For those who want romance from their mixed doubles though, there is some relief. Alex de Minaur and Katie Boulter, the Aussie-Brit couple who are engaged, have signed on. Many of the biggest-name teams, several of which the USTA organized in a fit of match-making, seeking to bring attention and interest in mixed doubles, are still there. That includes, Jannik Sinner and Emma Navarro, Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu, Novak Djokovic and Olga Danilovic, Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov, and Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud. However, the new entrants include a slew of hard-core and successful doubles players. That means the USTA is going to have some hard decisions to make about its priorities for the 16-team field. The top eight teams with the best combined singles ranking next week will gain automatic entry. The USTA will award wild cards to the next eight teams. Advertisement Here's the issue: Katerina Siniakova wants to play with Marcelo Arevalo; Desirae Krawczyk wants to play with Evan King; Hsieh Su-Wei wants to play with Jan Zielinski; Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori had already signed up; Gaby Dabrowski wants to play with fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime. All those women are ranked among the top 12 in the WTA doubles rankings. So is Taylor Townsend, the world No. 2 in doubles but No. 97 in singles. She has teamed up with Ben Shelton. Arevalo is the world No. 1. Errani and Vavassori are the defending champions. What's a tournament organizer to do? 'Earlier this year, the USTA announced the reimagining of the US Open Mixed Doubles Championship, with the goal of driving greater awareness for this storied competition, giving fans both in attendance and across the globe the opportunity to see tennis' biggest stars – both men and women – compete side-by-side for a US Open Grand Slam title,' the USTA said in the statement that accompanied the roster of registrants. The reimagining included shrinking the tournament to a two-day event scheduled for August 18 and 19 to allow big-time singles players to use it as a competitive warm-up for their singles competitions. The format will be best-of-three sets with a match tiebreak for the third set. Also, the sets are first to four games rather than six. Several top doubles players have complained that the USTA has turned a legitimate competition into an exhibition. Even Djokovic said recently awarding a Grand Slam title to a team after a two-day competition of mini-matches seemed a bit weird. Now it appears the organizers may have made it too appealing – and pitted committed doubles players against stars in singles. That said, they have also given themselves an opportunity to test the age-old question of whether two singles stars are better than doubles specialists at their own game. Advertisement The question now though is how many of those doubles specialists will get the opportunity to represent their cohort and how the USTA will justify its choices. The full list of entrants so far… Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner **Amanda Anisimova and Holger Rune Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov **Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz **Katie Boulter and Alex De Minaur **Donna Vekic and Hubert Hurkacz Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton **Iva Jovic and Jenson Brooksby Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori **Gaby Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime **Demi Schuurs and Tallon Griekspoor **Katerina Siniakova and Marcelo Arevalo **Desirae Krawczyk and Evan King **Su-Wei Hsieh and Jan Zielinski **Venus Williams and Reilly Opelka **Denotes new entrant since initial announcement on 6/17 (Cover photo of De Minaur and Boulter:)
San Francisco Chronicle
2 days ago
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
Venus Williams and Amanda Anisimova are among the players added to the US Open mixed doubles list
Venus Williams is paired with Reilly Opelka, and Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova is joined by Holger Rune on Monday's updated list of teams that have signed up to try to enter the newfangled U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament next month. A total of 25 duos are on the latest entry list released by the U.S. Tennis Association. Only 16 will make the field for the Aug. 19-20 competition that will pay the winning team $1 million. The deadline for entries is a week away. That's when the eight duos with the highest combined singles rankings will gain official acceptance for the event. The USTA will select the other eight teams and give them wild-card invitations. The mixed doubles was moved to the week before the start of competition in the singles brackets. Singles matches begin on Aug. 24. In addition to Williams — a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion who is 45 and entered the tournament in Washington this week for her first competition in more than a year — with Opelka, and Anisimova with Rune, other new teammates announced Monday include Katie Boulter and Alex De Minaur, who are engaged to be married; Donna Vekic and Hubert Hurkacz; Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev; Iva Jovic and Jenson Brooksby; Gaby Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime; Demi Schuurs and Tallon Griekspoor; Katerina Siniakova and Marcelo Arevalo; Desirae Krawczyk and Evan King; and Su-Wei Hsieh and Jan Zielinski. The original group of potential participants was released last month and included Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz; Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner; Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud; Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti; Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz; Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev; Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev; Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe; Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul; Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov; Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic; Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios; Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton; and last year's U.S. Open mixed doubles champions, Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori. It's a star-studded cast that is quite different from the mix of doubles specialists usually found in a Grand Slam mixed doubles bracket. Some criticized the changes when they were announced in February, with Errani and Vavassori calling the new format a 'pseudo-exhibition focused only on entertainment and show' that would shut out true doubles players. ___
Hamilton Spectator
2 days ago
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Venus Williams and Amanda Anisimova are among the players added to the US Open mixed doubles list
Venus Williams is paired with Reilly Opelka, and Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova is joined by Holger Rune on Monday's updated list of teams that have signed up to try to enter the newfangled U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament next month. A total of 25 duos are on the latest entry list released by the U.S. Tennis Association. Only 16 will make the field for the Aug. 19-20 competition that will pay the winning team $1 million . The deadline for entries is a week away. That's when the eight duos with the highest combined singles rankings will gain official acceptance for the event. The USTA will select the other eight teams and give them wild-card invitations. The mixed doubles was moved to the week before the start of competition in the singles brackets. Singles matches begin on Aug. 24. In addition to Williams — a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion who is 45 and entered the tournament in Washington this week for her first competition in more than a year — with Opelka, and Anisimova with Rune, other new teammates announced Monday include Katie Boulter and Alex De Minaur, who are engaged to be married; Donna Vekic and Hubert Hurkacz; Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev; Iva Jovic and Jenson Brooksby ; Gaby Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime; Demi Schuurs and Tallon Griekspoor; Katerina Siniakova and Marcelo Arevalo; Desirae Krawczyk and Evan King; and Su-Wei Hsieh and Jan Zielinski. The original group of potential participants was released last month and included Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz; Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner; Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud; Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti; Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz; Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev; Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev; Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe; Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul; Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov; Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic; Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios; Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton; and last year's U.S. Open mixed doubles champions, Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori . It's a star-studded cast that is quite different from the mix of doubles specialists usually found in a Grand Slam mixed doubles bracket. Some criticized the changes when they were announced in February, with Errani and Vavassori calling the new format a 'pseudo-exhibition focused only on entertainment and show' that would shut out true doubles players. ___ AP tennis:
