{"id":193152,"date":"2025-09-02T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193152\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:54:09","slug":"wimbledon-has-no-plans-to-revamp-mixed-doubles-after-success-of-reimagined-us-open-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193152\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon has no plans to revamp mixed doubles after success of \u2018reimagined\u2019 US Open | Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The All England Club is not looking to change the format of the Wimbledon mixed doubles competition for future editions of the Championships despite the success of the \u201creimagined\u201d tournament at the US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year, the United States Tennis<\/a> Association opted to transform the format of the mixed doubles event in order to attract the top singles players, a move officials believe was incredibly successful and which featured partnerships such as Emma Raducanu paired with Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek alongside Casper Ruud.<\/p>\n

The tournament was held before the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles on a sold-out Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium, drawing a total of 78,000 fans. It was ultimately won by the previous year\u2019s champions, the doubles specialistsSara Errani and Andrea Vavassori<\/a>, but numerous stars nonetheless expressed hope that other grand slam tournaments would replicate the event. \u201cI think it would be cool if all the slams did this,\u201d said Jack Draper, who reached the semi-finals with Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n

Raducanu was similarly effusive. \u201cIt would be so fun if all the slams got involved and did something similar, even if it was not the exact same format,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it was a huge success. So many fans got involved, so many people watching and tuned in. It got a lot of attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is currently no appetite at the All England Club for the format of its mixed doubles tournament to change. The current setup is considered a key part of the Wimbledon<\/a> fortnight and doubles is generally more appreciated at Wimbledon, with each of the competitions attracting greater crowds during the tournament.<\/p>\n

However, the success of the mixed event and the US Open\u2019s \u201cfan week\u201d in New York has further illustrated how far Wimbledon has fallen behind the remainder of the grand slam tournaments. In recent years, the Australian Open, French Open and US Open have become three-week events, with each of those grand slam tournaments scheduling a large number of events during the qualifying week.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon remains hamstrung by its fragile grass courts and the limited space at the All England Club, with the qualifying event taking place more than three miles away in Roehampton. The organisers have attempted to address this issue with its Wimbledon Park Project, which aims to transform the Wimbledon Park golf course across the road from the club into an extension of the tournament grounds, allowing the Wimbledon organisers to host qualifying tournaments on-site and explore its own version of a pre-tournament week.<\/p>\n

skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n

The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend\u2019s action<\/p>\n

Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n

The project, which would take many years to complete, has had to navigate numerous legal complaints. The remaining hurdle is a court process<\/a> to determine whether there is a statutory trust on the land, which means the land must be used for public recreational purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All England Club is not looking to change the format of the Wimbledon mixed doubles competition for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-193152","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193152","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=193152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}