Defending champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori are through to the final of the US Open mixed doubles, showing their class in a re-imagined format that favoured singles stars.<\/p>\n
The Italian duo defeated the American team of Dannielle Collins and Christian Harrison 4-2, 4-2 to advance to the final, which will be played immediately after at Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n
The defending champions will face third seeds Casper Ruud and Iga \u015awi\u0105tek in the final.<\/p>\n
Ruud and \u015awi\u0105tek came from behind in the 10-point tiebreaker to be the first team through to the US Open mixed doubles final at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n
The Norwegian-Polish duo were down 4-8 in the first to 10 tiebreaker, before reeling off the final six points of the match to defeat top seeds Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula 3-5, 5-3 [10-8].<\/p>\n
Singles qualifying washed out as rain persists in New York<\/p>\n
Persistent rain in New York on Wednesday, local time, washed out the day’s qualification matches for the men’s and women’s singles draw.<\/p>\n
Across 14 matches, six men’s and eight women’s, none were able to be completed as just 45 minutes of playing time was possible before the downpour.<\/p>\n
Australian teen Emerson Jones leads 5-4 in the first set against Brazilian Laura Pigossi.<\/p>\n
Fellow Australian Astra Sharma claimed the first set against Victoria Jim\u00e9nez Kasintseva from Andorra. When play resumes, Sharma will lead 6-2, 2-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori are through to the final of the US Open mixed doubles,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5844,64,63,51612,61656,1806,2636,29529,588,85,1751],"class_list":{"0":"post-83933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-abc-sport","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-casper-ruud","12":"tag-flushing-meadows","13":"tag-grand-slam","14":"tag-iga-swiatek","15":"tag-mixed-doubles","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83933","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=83933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}