US Open mixed doubles suffers big-name withdrawals. Could Emma Raducanu, Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner follow suit?

The much-hyped 2025 US Open mixed doubles tournament has already been hit by several high-profile withdrawals and more big names could still pull out ahead of the debut event at Flushing Meadows.

The United States Tennis Association has decided to break from tradition as they have opted for a new two-day format that will take place the week before the US Open singles draw takes place with the winning team receiving a cheque of $1 million.

The tournament will feature 16 teams with eight teams gaining entry based on their combined singles ranking and eight earning wildcard entries.

The initial list contained several tennis stars who don’t usually play mixed doubles at the Grand Slams with world No 1 Jannik Sinner teaming up with Emma Navarro while Carlos Alcaraz is set to play with Emma Raducanu.

Women’s No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov will be on the same side of the net and newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek is set to play with Casper Ruud.

Sinner, Alcaraz, Raducanu, Swiatek and Sabalenka were some of the singles players who expressed their excitement about the event, but several others blasted organisers.

Power couple Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa were also on the entry list released in June along with Zheng Qinwen and Jack Draper, but those two teams have since withdrawn

The organisers have now expanded the provisional entry list to 25, but only 16 teams will take part in the tournament.

Tsitsipas and Badosa are rumoured to have broken up and the latter is also struggling with a back injury, while the Zheng-Draper entry has also been scrapped as the Chinese star will miss the US Open singles event due to an elbow injury.

The new teams who have been added are Amanda Anisimova and Holger Rune, Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev, Katie Boulter and Alex de Minaur, Donna Vekic and Hubert Hurkacz, 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, Hsieh Su-Wei and Jan Zielinski, and Venus Williams and Reilly Opelka.

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Sinner and Navarro as well as Alcaraz and Raducanu still feature on the list along with Ruud-Swiatek, Sabalenka-Dimitrov, and Novak Djokovic-Olga Danilovic, but there are major doubts over the participation of these teams.

The US Open mixed doubles event is scheduled to take place on August 19 and 20 at Flushing Meadows in New York, but there is a good chance that some of those players will be in action at the finals of the joint ATP-WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open.

Both the men’s and women’s singles finals are set for Monday, August 18 in Mason, Ohio,

If the four players who compete in the finals are on the US Open mixed entry list they will have to rush off to New York immediately after the matches if they are to play matches at Flushing Meadows a day later.

Those who then make the finals day – Wednesday, August 20 – will then only have a few days’ rest before the US Open singles tournament starts.

It is a big risk for those who hope to be fresh for the fortnight of singles action at the US Open.

The 25 teams on the entry list (only 16 will compete):

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
Hsieh Su-Wei and Jan Zielinski
Venus Williams and Reilly Opelka

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