Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz are among the 14 teams announced by the US Tennis Association for its mixed doubles event on August 19-20;The US Open is live on Sky Sports Tennis and Sky Sports+, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports app from August 24
Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz have been confirmed as wild card entries in this year’s US Open mixed doubles event with Jack Draper and Venus Williams also set to play.
In a bid to attract some of the sport’s biggest names, the USTA increased the prize money, switched mixed doubles from the same time as the singles and other doubles events to the week before the start of singles competition and reduced the format to first-to-four-game sets with no-ad scoring.
The mixed doubles championship will take place on August 19 and 20, where $1m (£750,000) in prize money is at stake for the winners.
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Raducanu and Alcaraz are one of six teams who have received wild cards so far and two further wild cards are set to be announced at a later date to take the overall number of teams competing to 16.
Eight of the total 16 pairs have received direct entry into the draw, including Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner along with Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud.
Britain’s Jack Draper is also in the main draw, paired with Paula Badosa, and US duo Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul will play together in front of their home crowd.
Other notable wild cards include Novak Djokovic and Olga Danilovic, while two-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion Venus Williams will compete with Reilly Opelka.
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