{"id":34098,"date":"2025-07-30T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34098\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:34:08","slug":"emma-raducanu-gets-preferential-treatment-as-brits-partner-makes-plea-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34098\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu gets preferential treatment as Brit’s partner makes plea | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie Boulter<\/a> and her fiance, Alex de Minaur<\/a>, have made a desperate plea to be included in the US Open<\/a> mixed doubles this year. The event has been drastically revamped as a standalone competition<\/a> before the singles get underway, with big-name pairings given wildcards and high-ranking doubles players left out.<\/p>\n

The Flushing Meadows decision-makers have faced significant backlash. Last year’s mixed doubles winners, Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori, described the scheduling as a “profound injustice” and the new format as “a pseudo-exhibition focused only on entertainment and show.” They have received a wildcard entry.<\/p>\n

The couple, who are set to tie the knot next year, have not been awarded the same opportunity. That is despite being one of the most high-profile pairings on tour and competing at several events together.<\/p>\n

World No.8 De Minaur replied directly to the US Open\u2019s announcement, writing \u201cKatie and I would like to ask for a WC (wildcard) pretty pretty please.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Aussie could yet get his wish, with the tournament still waiting to hand out two more wildcards to complete the event taking place on August 19\/20.<\/p>\n

Aside from competing in a first-of-its-kind tournament alongside his fiancee, De Minaur also faces the prospect of missing out on \u00a3750,000 in prize money, which goes to the winning team of the two-day event.<\/p>\n

And De Minaur has already stated his desire to play alongside Boulter at the Arthur Ashe Stadium or Louis Armstrong Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re definitely going to be keen to try and play if they allow us too,\u201d said De Minaur at Queen\u2019s Club this summer. \u201cIf that\u2019s an option, we\u2019d definitely be keen. It\u2019s not really the normal set of rules, obviously it\u2019s incredibly early for them to already have a cut-off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The format has been reduced to first-to-four-game sets with no-ad scoring.<\/p>\n

The USTA also excluded from the initial announcement the partnerships of Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti, Naomi Osaka<\/a> and Nick Kyrgios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter and her fiance, Alex de Minaur, have made a desperate plea to be included in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[25854,49,48,619,3270,23040,25856,20367,82,593,2084,25853,25855,25857],"class_list":{"0":"post-34098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-de-minaur","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","12":"tag-emma-raducanu","13":"tag-katie-boulter","14":"tag-raducanu-alcaraz","15":"tag-raducanu-doubles","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tennis","18":"tag-us-open","19":"tag-us-open-tennis","20":"tag-us-open-mixed-doubles","21":"tag-us-open-wildcard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34098","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=34098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}