The US has received strong criticism after his decision to hold a mixed double competition as an independent event before the start of Slam from 2025.
The organizer said they hoped that this step would encourage single players to participate in mixed doubles, which will be held for two days a week before the beginning of the main lottery in New York.
However, the decision has been described as “in -depth injustice” by last year’s winners Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori in the middle of the reaction of the players.
Open US mixed doubles will be held on August 19-20, before Slam Hard-Court-who began this year Extending to the 15 -day event – Starting on Sunday, August 24.
“Making decisions only following earnings logic is very wrong in some situations,” said Italian winners Errani and Vavassori in a joint statement.
“In the last few weeks we have received the news that the Open US mixed doubles tournament will be completely reversed, canceled and replaced with pseudo-exhibition which only focuses on entertainment and performance.
“We see it as a deep injustice that does not respect all the categories of players. We don’t know at this time if we have the opportunity to defend our title, but we hope this will remain an isolated case.”
The US Open organizer said the change would allow the “biggest stars of sports” to participate in mixed doubles and claim “high excitement among the stars of the game that had stated the intention to compete” in a new format.
American player Taylor Fritz, world son number four, and Jessica Pegula, ranked fifth in women’s ranking, both of them expressed their intention to participate, while Holger Rune replied to the US Open announcement about X who said “interesting”.
