After many long months of discussion and anticipation, the doubles partnership between Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz came and went in the blink of an eye in a well‑populated Arthur Ashe Stadium. Despite ample smiles and enjoyment on the court, they were outclassed in a battle of British No 1s by a sharp Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper, the top …
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The Athletic has live coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tournament with the new mixed doubles format. For better or for worse, definitely for richer, and for who knows how long, the reimagined, star-spangled U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament gets underway Tuesday, Aug. 19 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. Sixteen pairs, comprised of the …
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The defending champ pulls out with illness, raising questions about his preparations before next Sunday’s US Open. Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Open after top seed Jannik Sinner retired as he was feeling unwell, raising concerns about the Italian’s fitness just days before he is due to begin the defence of his US Open title in New York. The Spanish …
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Read More »Full field and draw revealed for 2025 US Open Mixed Doubles Championship US Open Tennis Everything to know about the revamped — and controversial — US Open mixed doubles ESPN US Open mixed doubles draw: Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper to face each other in New York BBC US Open mixed doubles tournament set, with Alcaraz-Raducanu to face the No. 1 seeds AP News …
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When it was first announced that American tennis star Emma Navarro would play with world No. 1 Jannik Sinner at the reimagined Mixed Doubles event at the U.S. Open, Navarro joked that she “would try to get a better partner next year.” “He was begging me to play, he was saying, ‘I heard about your volleys and your doubles skills. …
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In April of 1993, Monica Seles and Steffi Graf were dueling for supremacy at the top of women’s tennis. Graf had won eight out of the nine Grand Slam tournaments played between 1988 and early 1990, before Seles burst onto the women’s tour and won eight of the next twelve. Their titles and their rivalry catapulted them into stardom — …
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“Small and deceptively cute, but definitely not harmless” is how scientists have described a new species of ancient whale, from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on Victoria’s surf coast. This early species, called Janjucetus dullardi, was an extremely unusual animal, said Dr Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate palaeontology at Museums Victoria Research Institute. It was tiny – about the size …
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