NewzSerena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz received one of the last three wildcard entries into the main draw for mixed doubles. (AFP/EPA Images pics)NEW YORK: Serena Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, and second-ranked Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, a seven-time Slam singles winner, will compete together in US Open mixed doubles, organisers announced Saturday.The US Tennis Association announced mixed doubles pairings topped by 44-year-old American Williams making her return to the US Open for the first time since 2022.Williams, a six-time US Open singles champion, captured the 1998 US Open mixed doubles title with Max Mirnyi.She and Alcaraz received one of the last three wildcard entries into the main draw for mixed doubles, with other spots going to Czechs Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik and Americans Emma Navarro and Tommy Paul.Williams played women's doubles with her sister Venus for the first time since 2022 at Cincinnati but lost in the first round.Mixed doubles will begin on Tuesday and conclude on Wednesday at the National Tennis Center, where the regular US Open begins on Aug 30.With Britain's Jack Draper and Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan withdrawing from the US Open mixed doubles, their former partners - Americans Jessica Pegula and Taylor Fritz - re-paired together as a team and were given direct entry into the main draw.Diana Shnaider, left without a partner when fellow Russian Daniil Medvedev withdrew, will have the chance to find a new partner and play before the draw is made on Sunday ahead of Monday's start of qualifying. Serena Williams will team up with Carlos Alcaraz to create a powerhouse mixed doubles pair in her return to the US Open.
Williams, meanwhile, is not planning to play singles after the final wild card was given to Sofia Kenin. NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams will team up with Carlos Alcaraz to create a powerhouse mixed doubles pair in her return to the U.S. Tennis Association announced Saturday that Williams and Alcaraz had been given a wild card into the tournament.
The mixed doubles main draw begins Tuesday, with the winning team sharing $1 million.It will be Williams' first time playing at the U.S. The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion returned to tennis this summer.“Let’s gooooo!” Alcaraz posted on X, with a fire emoji and tagging Williams.Williams is not planning to play singles in New York. The USTA had been holding one women's wild card, presumably in case Williams wanted it.
However, the tournament announced Saturday that it had been given to American Sofia Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion.Williams played singles at Wimbledon but sustained a knee injury in her first-round loss. She played doubles with older sister Venus at the Cincinnati Open, and they could still opt to play together at the U.S. Open.Alcaraz announced this week he would return to defend his U.S.
Open singles title after being sidelined since April with a right wrist injury.Serena Williams won a mixed doubles title at the U.S. Open even before winning any of her six singles titles there. She teamed for the 1998 championship with Max Mirnyi, who now works with top-ranked woman Aryna Sabalenka.The mixed doubles tournament is far different now, as the USTA revamped it last year to make it a two-day, 16-team event it hoped would draw top singles players.Few are bigger than Williams and Alcaraz, the two-time U.S.
Open men's champion who is ranked No. 2.The USTA also announced a number of updates to the field after some players withdrew from the competition.Americans Jessica Pegula and Taylor Fritz will team up, after their previous partners, Jack Draper and Elena Rybakina, pulled out with injuries. The teams of Emma Navarro and Tommy Paul, along with Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik, were given the remaining two wild cards into the main draw.Also, Diana Shnaider remains in the field and will be given a chance to find a new partner after Daniil Medvedev withdrew.The current field:Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic, Pegula and Fritz, Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud, Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli, Amanda Anisimova and Learner Tien, two-time defending champions Sara Errani and A…
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