Tennis fans can expect largely the same U.S. Open this year, except for the one glaring change in the lead-up to the singles tournament: the revamped mixed doubles championship.
This year, sixteen high-profile teams will compete in a knockout tournament on Tuesday and Wednesday, the first three rounds of which will be decided in up to four-game sets and the final up to six. As for the winners, well, they'll receive a cool $1 million to share, an $800,000 increase from 2024. And as for the event's star-studded teams, we'll see partners like Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu; Novak Djokovic and Olga Danilovic; and Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova and Danish star Holger Rune.
