Aug 15, 2025, 08:23 PM ET<\/p>\n
NEW YORK — Jessica Pegula<\/a> and Jack Draper<\/a> will team up for the US Open mixed doubles tournament, after their previous partners withdrew Friday from the revamped event.<\/p>\n Top-ranked men’s player Jannik Sinner<\/a> also needs a new partner if he wants to play in the event that will reward $1 million to the winning team, as Emma Navarro<\/a> also has pulled out of the competition that begins Tuesday and will instead be playing next week in a tournament in Monterrey, Mexico.<\/p>\n Pegula was slated to play with fellow American Tommy Paul<\/a>, while Draper had been paired with Paula Badosa<\/a>. Pegula, Draper and Sinner were all allowed to find a new partner by Sunday’s deadline and maintain a direct entry into the field of 16 teams if their combined singles ranking was high enough.<\/p>\n Pegula, last year’s US Open women’s runner-up, and Draper had a combined ranking of 9 as of the entry deadline.<\/p>\n After the withdrawals and new pairings, Italians Jasmine Paolini<\/a> and Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> also moved into the draw via direct entry through their combined rankings.<\/p>\n There are 13 spots currently filled, including defending mixed doubles champions Sara Errani<\/a> and Andrea Vavassori<\/a>, who were given one of the wild cards by the U.S. Tennis Association. They criticized the new format, a shortened, two-day event that will largely be filled by top singles players.<\/p>\n The other teams that have qualified directly include Iga Swiatek<\/a> and Casper Ruud<\/a>, Elena Rybakina<\/a> and Taylor Fritz<\/a>, Amanda Anisimova<\/a> and Holger Rune<\/a>, Belinda Bencic<\/a> and Alexander Zverev<\/a>, and Mirra Andreeva<\/a> and Daniil Medvedev<\/a>.<\/p>\n The other wild cards that have been given have gone to Emma Raducanu<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, Madison Keys<\/a> and Frances Tiafoe<\/a>, Olga Danilovic<\/a> and Novak Djokovic<\/a>, Taylor Townsend<\/a> and Ben Shelton<\/a>, and Venus Williams<\/a> and Reilly Opelka<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 15, 2025, 08:23 PM ET NEW YORK — Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper will team up for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-86268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}