When the news about the US Open’s plans emerged in February, reigning mixed doubles champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavussori labelled the decision “a profound injustice”.<\/p>\n
Their thoughts have since been echoed by many doubles specialists, who also gripe about losing a crucial earning opportunity after being pushed out in favour of the stars.<\/p>\n
Errani and Vavussori were eventually given a wildcard to play in the 16-team event, but were the only specialist doubles pairing in the draw.<\/p>\n
The Italian pair opened the day’s play on Louis Armstrong Stadium – the second show court at Flushing Meadows – and competed like they had a point to prove.<\/p>\n
Passionate roars were loud and clear throughout their 4-2 4-2 opening win over big-name pairing Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n
More emotion was shown when they reached Wednesday’s semi-finals with a 4-1 5-4 (7-4) victory against Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n
“We’re also playing for all the doubles players that could not be here, so we tried to do our best,” said Vavassori.<\/p>\n
Errani and Vavassori face American pair Danielle Collins and Christian Harrison – who signed in on Tuesday morning to replace Sinner and Katerina Siniakova – in Wednesday\u2019s semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Six-time Grand Slam singles champion Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud, a three-time major finalist, meet Pegula and Draper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the news about the US Open’s plans emerged in February, reigning mixed doubles champions Sara Errani and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-160764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115060432254789406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}