New York is already preparing for its great appointment with tennis, the US Open. The last Grand Slam of the season will start on Sunday 24 at the individual paintings, but The action will begin this Tuesday with the new mixed double tournament.
The best players of both circuits (ATP and WTA) join in an 'Express' format that will resolve the tournament in just two days (Tuesday and Wednesday).
Carlos Alcaraz will be one of the great attractions. Will form a couple with Emma Raducanuwith whom he had already coincided in an advertising act at the beginning of summer.
Both already know who will be released in the round of 16. The first standard heads, Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper will be measured (not before 20 Spanish peninsular hour).
In case of winning, at dawn, they would be seen in the quarterfinals with the winning couple of the duel that will face Novak Djokovic and Olga Danilovic con Daniel Mrra Andreva.
Also participates in the tournament Jannik Sinner, who will have a pleasant surprise with his new partner, Czech specialist Katerina Siniakovaten times Grand Slam champion in female doubles.
He planned to form team with Emma Navarro, but this was retired to play the Monterrey Women's Tournament (Mexico) next week.
The other teams that The event was added at the last minute, they are the twice champion of the US Open, Naomi Osaka and Gael Monfils, Karolina Muchva and Andrey Rublev, and Caty McNally and Lorenzo Musetti. Musetti planned to play with her Italian compatriot Jasmine Paolini, but she will play against Iga Swiatek in the Cincinnati final and retired.
Swiatek continues in Liza with his partner Casper Ruud. Sinner and number two of the ranking, Alcaraz, will face the men's final and will have little time to recover before their double york debut.
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Sinner and Siniakova, who were granted one of the eight invitations, They will debut against the team formed by Alexander Zverev and Belinda Bencic.
The remaining confrontations of the first round: Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic against Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev; The serial head No. 3, Swiatek and Ruud, against Madison Keys and French Tiafoe; Osaka and Monfils against McNally and Musetti; Taylor Towsend and Ben Shelton against serial head No. 4, Amanda Anisimova and Holger Rune; Venus Williams and Reilly Opelka against Muchva and Rublev; and couple No. 2, Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz, against Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori.
Errani and Vavassori are the current UPEN champions and the only traditional double double couple who participates in the tournament. The first and second round will be played on Tuesday from 17 Spanish peninsular hour, while the semifinals and the final will take place on Wednesday night.
