Montreal\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime and Ottawa\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski will reunite for the first time since winning mixed doubles bronze for Canada at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n
They were among the latest entries announced Monday for next month\u2019s reimagined U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament, which features a $1-million prize for the winning team.<\/p>\n
Other notable duos include Venus Williams with Reilly Opelka, and Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova with Holger Rune.<\/p>\n
A total of 25 duos are on the latest entry list released by the U.S. Tennis Association. Only 16 will make the field for the Aug. 19-20 competition that\u00a0will pay the winning team $1 million.<\/p>\n
The deadline for entries is a week away. That’s when the eight duos with the highest combined singles rankings will gain official acceptance for the event.<\/p>\n
The USTA will select the other eight teams and give them wild-card invitations.<\/p>\n
The mixed doubles was moved to the week before the start of competition in the singles brackets. Singles matches begin on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n
In addition to Williams \u2014 a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion who is 45 and entered the tournament in Washington this week for her first competition in more than a year \u2014 with Opelka, and Anisimova with Rune, other new teammates announced Monday include Katie Boulter and Alex De Minaur, who are engaged to be married; Donna Vekic and Hubert Hurkacz; Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev; Iva Jovic and\u00a0Jenson Brooksby; Demi Schuurs and Tallon Griekspoor; Katerina Siniakova and Marcelo Arevalo; Desirae Krawczyk and Evan King; and Su-Wei Hsieh and Jan Zielinski.<\/p>\n
The original group of potential participants was released last month and included Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz; Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner; Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud; Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti; Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz; Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev; Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev; Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe; Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul; Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov; Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic; Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios; Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton; and last year’s U.S. Open mixed doubles champions,\u00a0Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a star-studded cast that is quite different from the mix of doubles specialists usually found in a Grand Slam mixed doubles bracket. Some criticized the changes when they were announced in February, with Errani and Vavassori calling the new format a \u201cpseudo-exhibition focused only on entertainment and show\u201d that would shut out true doubles players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime and Ottawa\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski will reunite for the first time since winning mixed doubles bronze…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-14947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}