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Gigantic tennis meeting: who will win the $1 million in mixed doubles?
The 2025 US Open is blooming with a new mixed competition where top stars will compete for million-dollar prize money.
Gigantic tennis meeting: who will win the $1 million in mixed doubles?
The US Open 2025 mixed tournament promises a spectacular field of participants with prominent players. On August 19th and 20th, 2025, during the qualification week, strong duos will compete against each other. The world number one Jannik Sinner plays together with the experienced one Emma Navarro, which is ranked 9th in the WTA rankings. Other high-profile pairings include: Aryna Sabalenka, who is currently considered the best player, alongside Grigor Dimitrov, and Belinda Bencic, which together with Alexander Zverev starts.
The expected prize money for the winning mixed duo is an impressive one million dollars. USTA CEO Lew Sherr expressed excitement about the reshuffled teams and reformed competition. The current top ten men and women each have nine players taking part in this tournament, which ensures high competitiveness.
Structure and rules of the competition
The 2025 US Open will take place in New York from August 23rd to September 7th. The new date, which places the mixed tournament in the qualifying week, is intended to give the competition more attention and increase viewer numbers. The reformed competition will be reduced to 16 mixed doubles teams, and the field will consist of eight teams that will be entered directly into the tournament via their combined singles rankings, as well as eight additional teams that will receive wild cards. This offers a better chance for a wide range of players to showcase themselves.
A new regulation introduces some notable changes: a set can be decided by winning four games, a match tiebreak replaces the third set, and the advantage rule no longer applies. These modifications have received mixed reactions: while some welcomed the innovations, Laura Siegemund, a former winner of the mixed competition, expressed concerns about a possible devaluation of the competition.
Television broadcast and global attention
ESPN will televise the mixed doubles tournament in prime time, which is particularly rare for doubles competitions. This broadcast could create widespread visibility and drive interest in the mixed event globally. Sherr noted that some players will be disappointed not to be able to take part in the event as the reformed structures put more focus on players' performance in mixed doubles.
The celebrity of the participants, like Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios, as well as Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud, increases the anticipation of this big event.
The 2025 US Open and its new mixed doubles competition appear to be on track to be a captivating and exciting event that could revitalize interest in mixed doubles worldwide. To accommodate doubles specialists, prize money from last year's mixed tournament will be redirected to the regular men's and women's doubles, which could preserve the traditional US Open structure.