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Daily Mirror
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- Daily Mirror
Fears grow over Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz partnership after US Open change
Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu have entered the US Open mixed doubles this year, but there are doubts over whether the pairing will happen at Flushing Meadows There are concerns that Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu could become the latest pair to withdraw from playing mixed doubles at the US Open. The Grand Slam has changed the format of the event this year to encourage high profile entrants, but a few teams have already pulled out. The United States Tennis Association has brought in a new two-day format that will take place the week before the singles draw and see the winners bank $1million. Organisers will give eight entrants a place in the tournament based on their combined singles rankings, with eight others granted wildcards. The revamped format attracted some eye-catching pairings, including world No.1s Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka, who are playing with Emma Navarro and Grigor Dimitrov respectively. Meanwhile, Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek is down to play with Casper Ruud and Novak Djokovic with Olga Danilovic. However, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa have withdrawn amid rumours of a split in their relationship, while Jack Draper and Zheng Qinwen have also pulled out of the event which will take place on August 19-20. The Sun now reports that Alcaraz and Raducanu could follow suit so they can fully focus on the singles at Flushing Meadows. Raducanu famously ditched Andy Murray at Wimbledon in 2024 for the same reason – and the pairing are likely relying on a wildcard to compete anyway, given Raducanu's singles ranking of 46th in the world might not be high enough to qualify automatically. Their withdrawal is also made more likely by the fact that Alcaraz has just skipped the Canadian Open to manage a niggle following his defeat in the final at Wimbledon. "I have small muscle issues and I need to recover physically and mentally for what comes next,' he wrote. It would be a shame, given the excitement around the pairing, which Alcaraz announced during Queen's. 'She took a while,' he said of Raducanu's response to his proposition of the pairing. 'No, not that much…But obviously she had to ask, and she had to think a little bit. But it wasn't immediate, so…' Asked about the delay in making a decision, Raducanu then joked: "Gotta keep 'em on their toes. I mean, of course, I had to ask my team if they wanted me to play. "But for me, when he asked me, I was going to say yes, I just had to kind of go through the formality of asking my coach, so I didn't just make the decision." Alcaraz added: 'She's going to be the boss. The US Open came to us and gave us the opportunity to play mixed doubles. I'm super excited about it, it's going to be great, it was an amazing idea from the tournament." "I've known Emma since a long time ago – I have a really good relationship with her so it's going to be interesting. We are going to enjoy for sure, I'll try to put my doubles skills on and we'll try to win.'
Atlantic
3 days ago
- Health
- Atlantic
Dear James: I Want to Be a Better Loser
Editor's Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers' questions. Tell him about your lifelong or in-the-moment problems at [email protected]. Don't want to miss a single column? Sign up to get 'Dear James' in your inbox. Dear James, I've been a lifelong participant in various recreational sports. Candidly, I'm not a great athlete, but I've always been enthusiastic. Now, in my late 50s, I've gotten especially serious about tennis. Sometimes, I play five times a week. I've committed to improving and have taken group and individual lessons. I play in competitive United States Tennis Association leagues specific to my age and ability, and play pickup games whenever I can. But I realize that when I play competitively, I have a negative, lingering, outsize reaction to losing. When I lose, I try to reframe it less as a defeat and more as What did I learn today? Yet my mind leads me back to despair and rumination on my mistakes. Logically, I know that if I were to win these competitions, I would most likely be bumped up to the next level. And at that point, I would probably be the weakest player in a higher level of competition—leading right back, with even more frequency, to despair. Some athletes joyfully stick with their sports for a lifetime and don't seem to be derailed by losing. What am I missing? How can I develop a healthier relationship to defeat? Dear Reader, I don't think you're missing anything. We all lose in the end—that's the second law of thermodynamics. And every intervening loss, be it in business, love, or tennis, simply reminds us of this elemental fact. Is it even possible to have a healthy relationship with losing? I'm not sure it is, any more than it's possible to have a healthy relationship with food poisoning. Certain human experiences simply resist philosophy. My grandfather, who had an ego like a piece of Roman statuary, enjoyed a game of chess. Especially in his final years: late-night, booze-fueled and booze-fuddled, with the occasional, accidental knocking-over of pieces. He enjoyed it—if he won. If he didn't win, he would take it as a melancholy comment on his old age, as evidence that his mind was going at last. And then he would slump, and brood loudly upon his failing faculties. So, as his opponent, you had to lose. But you couldn't lose too easily or obviously; fuzzy as he was, he would pick up on that. You had to lose while looking as if you were trying to win. (It often fell to my brother, a teenager at the time and—luckily for my grandfather—an excellent chess player, to perform this complex operation.) What's my point? Good question. I think my point is that losing is never just losing. In your case, losing at tennis connects to what? An ever-present and not particularly welcome sense of your limitations as a player? A whisper of advancing decrepitude? Some other, deeper, darker thing? When I lose, I feel like the cosmos is against me. And I'm right. So forget about being a good loser. Work on the comeback: That's my advice. Doomed as we may be to entropy, we humans also possess nearly idiotic capacities for self-renewal. We bounce back! Soak up the gall of losing, absorb the horrible information, feel it to the full, go there—and then rebound, with superb elasticity. Save your energy for that.
The Hindu
15-07-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
US Open 2025: Complete entry lists and cutoffs
Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka - defending champions and the current top-ranked male and female tennis players - headline the entry lists for US Open 2025, the United States Tennis Association announced on Tuesday. This year's US Open will be held from August 24 to September 7 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York. The field includes 18 former Grand Slam singles champions, including 10 former US Open champions. Nine players have entered on protected/special rankings, including Petra Kvitova, who will retire from the sport after the event, and Wimbledon 2021 runner-up Nick Kyrgios. What is the main draw cutoff for US Open 2025? The main draw cutoff for men's singles is 101 while it is 99 for women's singles at US Open 2025. How many wildcards have been announced for US Open 2025? Stefan Dostanic and Valerie Glozman booked their Grand Slam main draw debuts by winning the American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoffs held at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, from June 16-18. Fourteen other main draw wildcards (seven in each singles draw) will be announced closer to the tournament. As per the ATP and WTA Rankings on July 14, 2025, here are the complete main draw entry lists for men's and women's singles:- RANK MEN 1 Jannik Sinner (Italy) 2 Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) 3 Alexander Zverev (Germany) 4 Taylor Fritz (USA) 5 Jack Draper (Great Britain) 6 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 7 Lorenzo Musetti (Italy) 8 Holger Rune (Denmark) 9 Ben Shelton (USA) 10 Andrey Rublev 11 Frances Tiafoe (USA) 12 Alex de Minaur (Australia) 13 Casper Ruud (Norway) 14 Daniil Medvedev 15 Arthur Fils (France) 16 Tommy Paul (USA) 17 Karen Khachanov 18 Jakub Mensik (Czechia) 19 Flavio Cobolli (Italy) 20 Francisco Cerundolo (Argentina) 21 Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria) 21 (Protected Ranking) Nick Kyrgios (Australia) 22 Tomas Machac (Czechia) 23 Ugo Humbert (France) 24 Alexei Popyrin (Australia) 25 Jiri Lehecka (Czech Republic) 26 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (Spain) 27 Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) 28 Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada) 29 Tallon Griekspoor (Netherlands) 30 Alex Michelsen (USA) 31 Brandon Nakashima (USA) 32 Sebastian Korda (USA) 33 Denis Shapovalov (Canada) 34 Alexander Bublik (Kazakhstan) 35 Nuno Borges (Portugal) 36 Matteo Berrettini (Italy) 37 Sebastian Baez (Argentina) 38 Gabriel Diallo (Canada) 39 Jordan Thompson (Australia) 40 Lorenzo Sonego (Italy) 41 Hubert Hurkacz (Poland) 42 Alexandre Muller (France) 43 Cameron Norrie (Great Britain) 44 Matteo Arnaldi (Italy) 45 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (France) 46 Marcos Giron (USA) 47 Pedro Martinez (Spain) 48 Joao Fonseca (Brazil) 49 Gael Monfils (France) 50 Miomir Kecmanovic (Serbia) 51 Jaume Munar (Spain) 52 Quentin Halys (France) 53 Zizou Bergs (Belgium) 54 Roberto Bautista Agut (Spain) 55 Luciano Darderi (Italy) 56 Fabian Marozsan (Hungary) 57 Jacob Fearnley (Great Britain) 58 Tomas Martin Etcheverry (Argentina) 59 Camilo Ugo Carabelli (Argentina) 60 Laslo Djere (Serbia) 61 Daniel Altmaier (Germany) 62 Corentin Moutet (France) 63 Mattia Bellucci (Italy) 64 Arthur Rinderknech (France) 65 Marin Cilic (Croatia) 66 Reilly Opelka (USA) 67 Learner Tien (USA) 68 David Goffin (Belgium) 69 Benjamin Bonzi (France) 70 Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 71 Kei Nishikori (Japan) 72 Hamad Medjedovic (Serbia) 73 Yunchaokete Bu (China) 74 Francisco Comesana (Argentina) 74 (Protected Ranking) Sebastian Ofner (Austria) 75 Mariano Navone (Argentina) 76 Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA) 77 Christopher O'Connell (Australia) 78 Roman Safiullin 79 Roberto Carballes Baena (Spain) 80 Rinky Hijikata (Australia) 81 Kamil Majchrzak (Poland) 82 Ethan Quinn (USA) 83 Vit Kopriva (Czechia) 83 (Protected Ranking) Emil Ruusuvuori (Finland) 84 Raphael Collignon (Belgium) 85 Juncheng Shang (China) 86 Mackenzie McDonald (USA) 87 Yoshihito Nishioka (Japan) 88 Borna Coric (Croatia) 89 Marton Fucsovics (Hungary) 90 Aleksandar Vukic (Australia) 91 Hugo Gaston (France) 92 Pablo Carreno Busta (Spain) 93 Adrian Mannarino (France) 94 Hugo Dellien (Bolivia) 95 Luca Nardi (Italy) 96 Nicolas Jarry (Chile) 97 Adam Walton (Australia) 98 Chun-hsin Tseng (Chinese Taipei) 99 Jenson Brooksby (USA) 100 Botic van de Zandschulp (Netherlands) 101 Alexander Shevchenko (Kazakhstan) RANK WOMEN 1 Aryna Sabalenka 2 Coco Gauff (USA) 3 Iga Swiatek (Poland) 4 Jessica Pegula (USA) 5 Mirra Andreeva 6 Qinwen Zheng (China) 7 Amanda Anisimova (USA) 8 Madison Keys (USA) 9 Jasmine Paolini (Italy) 10 Paula Badosa (Spain) 11 Emma Navarro (USA) 12 Karolína Muchová (Czechia) 13 Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) 14 Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 14 (Special Ranking) Petra Kvitova (Czechia) 15 Diana Shnaider 16 Ekaterina Alexandrova 17 Liudmila Samsonova 18 Daria Kasatkina (Australia) 19 Clara Tauson (Denmark) 20 Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) 21 Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil) 22 Elise Mertens (Belgium) 23 Linda Nosková (Czechia) 24 Magalena Frech (Poland) 25 Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia) 26 Sofia Kenin (USA) 27 Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine) 28 Magda Linette (Poland) 29 Ashlyn Krueger (USA) 30 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 31 McCartney Kessler (USA) 32 Olga Danilović (Serbia) 33 Rebecca Sramkova (Slovakia) 34 Peyton Stearns (USA) 35 Leylah Fernandez (Canada) 36 Tatjana Maria (Germany) 37 Maya Joint (Australia) 37 (Special Ranking) Sorana Cirstea (Romania) 38 Veronika Kudermetova 39 Dayana Yastremska (Ukraine) 40 Xinyu Wang (China) 41 Katie Boulter (Great Britain) 42 Anastasia Potapova 43 Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan) 44 Sonay Kartal (Great Britain) 45 Emma Raducanu (Great Britain) 46 Marie Bouzkova (Czechia) 47 Anna Kalinskaya 48 Hailey Baptiste (USA) 49 Naomi Osaka (Japan) 50 Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro (Spain) 50 (Special Ranking) Zhu Lin (China) 51 Jaqueline Cristian (Romania) 52 Donna Vekic (Croatia) 53 Elina Avanesyan (Armenia) 54 Laura Siegemund (Germany) 55 Eva Lys (Germany) 56 Alexandra Eala (Philippines) 57 Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Romania) 58 Caroline Dolehide (USA) 59 Alycia Parks (USA) 60 Polina Kudermetova 61 Suzan Lamens (Netherlands) 62 Camila Osorio (Colombia) 63 Lois Boisson (France) 64 Lucia Bronzetti (Italy) 65 Ann Li (USA) 65 (Special Ranking) Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) 66 Danielle Collins (USA) 67 Solana Sierra (Argentina) 68 Marketa Vondrousova (Czechia) 69 Kamilla Rakhimova 70 Renata Zarazua (Mexico) 71 (Special Ranking) Wang Yafan (China) 72 Yulia Starodubtseva (Ukraine) 73 Moyuka Uchijima (Japan) 74 Zeynep Sönmez (Turkiye) 75 Kimberly Birrell (Australia) 76 Elisabetta Cocciaretto (Italy) 77 Anna Bondár (Hungary) 78 Barbora Krejcikova (Czechia) 79 Anna Blinkova 80 Emiliana Arango (Colombia) 81 Ajla Tomljanović (Australia) 82 Anastasia Zakharova 83 Greet Minnen (Belgium) 84 Kateřina Siniaková (Czechia) 85 Viktorija Golubic (Switzerland) 86 Victoria Mboko (Canada) 87 Iva Jovic (USA) 88 Maria Sakkari (Greece) 89 Yue Yuan (China) 90 Antonia Ruzic (Croatia) 91 Victoria Azarenka 92 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 93 Cristina Bucsa (Spain) 94 Lulu Sun (New Zealand) 95 Elsa Jacquemot (France) 95 (Special Ranking) Danka Kovinic (Montenegro) 96 Taylor Townsend (USA) 97 Rebeka Masarova (Switzerland) 98 Diane Parry (France) 99 Mayar Sherif (Egypt) Here are the Top-10 alternates who may get entry into the main draw in case accepted players withdraw: MEN WOMEN Elmer Moller (Denmark) Leolia Jeanjean (France) Alejandro Tabilo (Chile) Nuria Parrizas Diaz (Spain) Brandon Holt (USA) Jil Teichmann (Switzerland) Filip Misolic (Australia) Alize Cornet (France) - Special Ranking Jesper de Jong (Netherlands) Aoi Ito (Japan) Carlos Taberner (Spain) Francesca Jones (Great Britain) Valentin Royer (France) Viktoriya Tomova (Bulgaria) Lloyd Harris (South Africa) - Protected Ranking Varvara Gracheva (France) Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Argentina) Bernarda Pera (USA) Tristan Schoolkate (Australia) Katie Volynets (USA)
Metro
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Metro
'My heart is bleeding' - Wimbledon champion upset by major tennis change
New Wimbledon mixed doubles champion Sem Verbeek says his 'heart is bleeding' over a radical change in the format of the US Open. The American Grand Slam announced earlier in the year that its mixed doubles tournament will be held as a standalone event before the hard-court major begins. The United States Tennis Association described the move as bold and revolutionary and said it hoped it would attract more high-profile singles players. A number of famous partnerships have already been struck, with two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz teaming up with British number one Emma Raducanu. While more high-profile players will now compete in the mixed doubles event, the vast majority of doubles specialists will miss out on playing on the competition in New York. The change means new Wimbledon champion Verbeek will be unable to play with partner Katerina Siniakova at next month's US Open. Verbeek and Siniakova won the Wimbledon mixed doubles event with a 7-6 7-6 win over Britain's Joe Salisbury and Brazil's Luisa Stefani on Centre Court. 'As two athletes that would love to play it, it's a shame to obviously know that we can't,' said Verbeek after lifting his maiden Grand Slam trophy. 'I'm not going to actively root against it for it not to be a success. 'The positive I can think of is that there's going to be more people that can see the top single stars earlier in the tournament when they are maybe a bit more accessible to the public. 'But as a doubles athlete, my heart is bleeding.' Verbeek's partner Siniakova, the world number one in women's doubles, added to BBC Sport: 'It's a shame they decided to do it. 'I think it's a marketing step, but they are taking [away the] chance of doubles players.' Tournament organisers have been buoyed by the strong entry list for the new US Open mixed doubles tournament. As well as Alcaraz and Raducanu, the likes of Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner and Naomi Osaka have all confirmed their desire to play. Lew Sherr, the USTA's chief executive, said: 'Seeing the teams that have already put their names on the entry list makes us all incredibly excited. 'It shows that the players are behind what we are trying to do, and we know that the fans will love it.' But the new tournament has also faced a fair amount of criticism, with last year's US Open mixed doubles champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori describing the move as 'profound injustice'. More Trending The pair said in a statement: 'Making decisions just following the logic of profit is profoundly wrong in some situations. 'In the last few weeks we received the news that the US Open mixed doubles tournament will be completely turned upside down, cancelled and replaced with a pseudo-exhibition focused only on entertainment and show. 'We see it as a profound injustice that disrespects an entire category of players. We don't know at the moment if we'll have the chance to defend our title but we hope this remains an isolated case.' 'Terribly shocking' was how French tennis star Kristina Mladenovic, winner of multiple Slam doubles titles, described the new format. For more stories like this, check our sport page. Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. MORE: Iga Swiatek or Amanda Anisimova? Martina Navratilova's prediction for 'close' Wimbledon final MORE: Wimbledon finalist slammed for breaking unwritten tennis rule MORE: Novak Djokovic makes ominous decision before Jannik Sinner clash at Wimbledon
Daily Tribune
19-06-2025
- Sport
- Daily Tribune
Alcaraz and Raducanu sign up for US Open mixed doubles
AFP | Paris Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu plan to team up in a star-studded and radically overhauled US Open mixed doubles competition set to include most of the top men's and women's singles players. Tournament organisers on Tuesday announced 16 pairings for the new-look format, with Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic, Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek all named on the entry list. US tennis chiefs announced sweeping changes to the mixed doubles earlier this year, unveiling plans to stage the competition as a standalone event in the week before the singles draws begin. The tournament will be made up of 16 teams, with eight teams earning direct entry based on their combined singles ranking playing alongside eight wild-card entrants. 'Seeing the teams that have already put their names on the entry list makes us all incredibly excited,' said Lew Sherr, the CEO and executive director of the United States Tennis Association. 'It shows that the players are behind what we are trying to do, and we know that the fans will love it.'
