While there is excitement for this revamped version of mixed doubles at the U.S. Open, there is also a fair amount of skepticism. Here are your views on the event:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac Tony T: \u201cThe Majors should protect the integrity of the sport. Nothing wrong with this format, but it shouldn\u2019t be at the U.S. Open.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac Alan R: \u201cAnother attempt to make tennis more promotable and less traditional. Not an advancement for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac Thomas F: \u201cI couldn\u2019t understand why all these big name stars were slated to play mixed doubles. Now I get it. It\u2019s an exhibition. Sets to 4, give me a break.\u201d <\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac Anonymous: \u201cThe mixed doubles is nothing more than a glorified exhibition. Ridiculous scheduling with first matches less than 24 hours after Cincinnati finals. No surprise if one or more of the finalists pull out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac Paul K: \u201cThe Cincinnati finals then this doubles thing starts a day after flying into New York? What are these players: carefully conditioned and managed top athletes or circus animals to entertain us? Good idea \u2018til it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac Khsu59: \u201cI\u2019m all for it and plan to watch. Mixed doubles historically has been a total non-event, even ignored by tennis nerds. I mean Sock and Oudin won when they played together as teenagers. It will be fun to watch some of the top players in a less pressured competition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While there is excitement for this revamped version of mixed doubles at the U.S. Open, there is also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-80141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}