Iga Swiatek shrugged off lingering weariness to partner Casper Ruud to back-to-back victories in the revamped mixed doubles competition at the US Open on Tuesday.This year's US Open mixed doubles competition is being held over Tuesday and Wednesday in the week before the main singles draws get under way.

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

Sinner had to forfeit his Cincinnati Open singles final against Carlos Alcaraz after five games due to illness.

Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu face off against Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper in the Mixed Doubles first round today, Aug. 19, at 2 p.m. ET. The first day of the US Open Mixed Doubles tournament is airing on the ESPN+ streaming service.

World No. 1 Jannik Sinner is officially out of the U.S. Open Mixed Doubles tournament after falling ill in Cincinnati. The Italian retired down 5-0 against Carlos Alcaraz in the Cincinnati Open final on Monday and was due to play Mixed Doubles Tuesday with partner Kateřina Siniaková in New York.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has doubled down on his new nickname for Vice President JD Vance —"Just Dance Vance." Newsom's team posted a meme of Vance's face on the body of Australian break-dancer Rachael "Raygun" Gunn, who went viral when she scored zero points in the 2024 Olympic breakdancing competition.

When it came to finding a partner for the newly formatted mixed doubles event at this year’s U.S. Open, it seemed like a no-brainer for Madison Keys.

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.