NEW YORK — Jannik Sinner has a brand new accomplice for the US Open blended doubles match, the place Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz will face the No. 1-seeded staff within the first spherical.
The rest of the 16-team area was accomplished Sunday and the draw was carried out forward of the two-day occasion that begins Tuesday and pays $1 million to the successful staff.
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Alcaraz and Raducanu, each previous US Open singles champions, face the staff of Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper, who drew the No. 1 seed primarily based on the bottom mixed singles rankings.
The highest-ranked Sinner will now play with 10-time girls’s doubles main champion Katerina Siniakova. He had been scheduled to staff with Emma Navarro, earlier than she withdrew to play within the girls’s match in Monterrey, Mexico, subsequent week.
The opposite groups added to the occasion Sunday are two-time US Open girls’s champion Naomi Osaka and Gael Monfils, Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev, and Caty McNally and Lorenzo Musetti.
Musetti had been scheduled to play with fellow Italian Jasmine Paolini, however she is taking part in Iga Swiatek within the Cincinnati last Monday and withdrew. Swiatek stays within the area with accomplice Casper Ruud.
Sinner and the second-ranked Alcaraz face off within the males’s last and could have a fast turnaround to their doubles openers in New York.
Sinner and Siniakova, who got one of many eight wild playing cards, will open in opposition to the staff of Alexander Zverev and Belinda Bencic.
The remaining first-round matchups: Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic vs. Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev; No. 3 Swiatek and Ruud vs. Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe; Osaka and Monfils vs. McNally and Musetti; Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton vs. No. 4 Amanda Anisimova and Holger Rune; Venus Williams and Reilly Opelka vs. Muchova and Rublev; and No. 2 Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz vs. Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori.
Errani and Vavassori are the defending US Open champions and the one conventional doubles staff within the area.
The primary and second rounds can be performed Tuesday starting at 11 a.m. The semifinals and last are Wednesday night time.
