Emma Raducanu And Jack Draper To Face Each Other In Revamped Us Open Mixed Doubles

Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu, will look each different successful nan first information of nan revamped US Open mixed doubles. The arena has been moved to earlier nan main tournament, connected 19 and 20 August, pinch $1m (£750,000) successful prize money astatine liking for nan winners of nan 16-pair event.

Draper will play pinch nan American Jessica Pegula aft their original partners, Paula Badosa and Tommy Paul, withdrew. With some wrong nan apical 5 successful nan singles rankings, nan brace person been handed nan apical seeding and will footwear disconnected their run against nan wildcard brace of Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz.

The winners will look nan 24-time expansive slam champion Novak Djokovic and Olga Danilovic if they flooded Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev. Venus Williams, astatine nan property of 45, and compatriot Reilly Opelka look Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev .

Meanwhile, nan six-time Wimbledon doubles champion Gordon Reid says wheelchair tennis must support proving its worth to tournaments to thief adjacent nan spread successful prize money. Reid and his partner, Alfie Hewett, are preparing for nan US Open, which past week announced a ample summation successful winnings.

While nan mixed doubles champions will now get $1m, nan full cookware for each wheelchair players is $1.69m. Reid and Hewett, who person won six titles astatine Flushing Meadows, pinch Hewett besides winning 4 singles titles, person been a large driving unit successful nan betterment successful wheelchair tennis.

“It’s been 20 years since we started, truthful successful position of nan property of nan slams themselves, we’re very fresh, very new,” Reid said. “As overmuch arsenic we want to spot an summation and nan spread successful nan prize money closing, we besides request to beryllium we’re adding something, adding worth to nan tournament. Hopefully, those travel manus successful hand, nan opportunities we get and nan prize money.