There are already a mixed couple of the US doubles Open champion. The Italians Sara Errani y Andrea Vavassori They beat La Polaca on Wednesday Iga Swiatek and to the Norwegian Casper Ruud To revalidate the mixed doubles title of the United States Open, in a renewed and plagued edition of stars.
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Errani and Vavassori defeated Swiatek and Ruud 6-3, 5-7 and 10-6 in the SuperDesEmpate, in an hour and 32 minutes of play. “I guess they have shown that mixed double players They are technically smarter than those of individuals“Swiatek said, addressing Errani and Vavassori, at the end of the final.
He United States Open This 2025 introduced a new format for a more attractive mixed doubles for the big stars of the circuit and for spectators.
With a reduced picture -16 couples-, only two days of tournament, in the week prior to the main box, shorter matches and A succulent economic prize (1 million dollars), the organization managed to fill the two main stadiums of Flushing Meadows.
To the tournament some of the great names of tennis, such as Serbian Novak DjokovicSpanish Carlos Alcarazthe American Venus Williams or the Japanese Naomi osakathat rarely were seen in the mixed doubles.
That made many of the doubles players be out of the painting. “This triumph is also for all the doubles who could not play this tournament,” Erani said when lifting the trophy.
Sara Errani He is a double double specialist, with six 'great' in his women's doubles, an Olympic gold also in female doubles and three 'large' in mixed doubles with Vavassori, with which Roland Garros also won this year.
In the semifinals, which were also played on Wednesday, the Italians got rid of the Americans Danielle Collins y Christian Harrison for a double 4-2. The tournament had started defeating the Kazaja Elena Rybakina and the American Taylor Fritz in a double 4-2 and in the fourths to Czech Karolina Muchvay to the Russian Andrey Rublev by 4-1 and 5-4 (4).
For their part, Swiatek and Ruud were classified for the final after getting rid of an epic duel of the American Jessica Pegula and of the British Jack Draper For 3-5, 5-3 and 10-8 in the SuperDesEmpate, in which they won the last six points. “We are playing to the limit “Ruud commented before the SuperDesEmpate of the final in another of the novelties of this tournament: interviews in the middle of the match.
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The million dollars that lead to vavassori and errani multiply by five 200,000 They won last year.
Vavassori took advantage of the victory to claim the attractiveness of the doubles, always in the shadow of the individual tournament: “Today we demonstrate that this is a great product. Looking ahead we need more marketing, more visibility, But this product has the potential to work in the future. It was incredible to play on this track with so many people. “
