Tennis fans got treated to pure magic at the US Open mixed doubles, but sometimes even wizardry can’t save you from a disappointing exit. Carlos Alcaraz pulled off what might be the shot of the tournament – maybe the year – leaving his partner Emma Raducanu looking like she’d just witnessed actual sorcery.

The US Open Mixed Doubles Championship finally introduced the revamp of the mixed doubles category on Tuesday. Thereby, stars collided and a new format was exhibited. However, can the tournament be declared a hit?

The No. 1-ranked Sinner, the defending champion in singles at Flushing Meadows, was supposed to compete in mixed doubles with Katerina Siniakova.

Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev are set to play along with Iga Swiatek and 45-year-old veteran Venus Williams when the US Open mixed doubles takes centre stage like never before. Instead of being crammed in amid the singles and doubles matches at the main draw event,

In the U.S. Open, the format is being redesigned as a popularity contest engineered to generate buzz.

Williams is a longtime resident of Palm Beach Gardens while Opelka has lived in the Delray Beach/Boca Raton area since he was a teenager.

The defending US Open champion Jannik Sinner faces an uphill battle to be ready for this weekend's tournament after illness forced him to abandon two competitions. The Italian tennis star pulled out of the mixed doubles event where he was scheduled to partner Katerina Siniakova,

T he blossoming rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner continued this week at the Cincinnati Open, as the world's two best players locked horns in an ATP final for a fifth consecutive time.