Do you not think that this is going to be an improvement monetarily, engagement, and ratings wise over last year?
not sure about ben and taylor townsend, but Keys and Tiafoe are very close friends. Probably had something to with it if I was to take a guess.
Ben and Taylor have lefthandedness in common.
Finally Suresh and Byebyepoly will get a chance to win US Open.
don’t really think they are. they had qinwen with draper (originally), they have alcaraz with raducanu, pegula with tommy paul, venus with opelka. you can’t help it that tennis is a predominantly white sport at the top.
This clearly is a money grabber rather than an attempt for the best possible tennis. The local powers and their sponsors aren't supposed to make decisions about who competes; the professional tennis org is responsible for all its registered tennis players. Me think the WTA, ATP and their ITF HQ have either been taken advantage of or ganged up with the American organizers. Seems to me the USO has confused professional tennis for Hollywood cinematography.
not what i asked
mixed doubles isn’t ranked any. quite simply this is the only time i’ve heard about people caring about mixed doubles in my entire time as a tennis fanatic.
Sorry. I thought MONEY GRABBER grabbed the thinking. Ratings will go up which is what MONEY GRABBER is about too. "Do you not think"? "Seems to me" So, what did you ask?
You may be right but you may also be ignoring the accomplishments of mixed-doublers. Perhaps your fascination over tennis isn't so deep as to how well some players play but who plays.
You’re 100% right. I literally give zero sh*ts about mixed doubles. Likewise, almost every other person doesn’t either.
I thank you for the respect you have given me here but I can't accept your view that "every other person" may be just like you. The marketing of doubles and mixed doubles may be flawed. All the attention to the singles players, in my humble opinion, may draw away the interest in doubles/mixed doubles. Then, there are the ticket prices. Can you imagine how many more people would have come to see the mixed doubles in previous tournaments, had the entry to those courts eased up? Can you imagine how many more people would have known about some great mixed doublers, had the news not overly focused on Roger/Rafa/Novak or now Jannik/Carlos? Me think we would have a more complete professional tennis today than we do. In the Hollywood Open coming to our theaters in Flushing Meadows soon, we are to have a partial professional competition with great exhibition.
You’re right, i’m using hyperbole. Why don’t we do something like compare mixed doubles viewing numbers to men’s and women’s singles.
Darn! I can't even type as fast as you are following me on this thread
I’ve gotten to 129WPM 100% accuracy on monkeytype. that’s my peak though.Darn! I can't even type as fast as you are following me on this thread
Yeah, that's my point too. We may never get such high numbers of viewers in mixed doubles as in men's singles but we may improve the people's attention more professionally than what USO has just done arrogantly. This format is an insult to professional tennis and viewership. I'd go as far as to suggest that this is a racketeering scheme
Mixed doubles must have been the victim of "flawed marketing" throughout the entire Open Era (57 years now), since the event has never, ever, drawn a significant fraction of the attention from the public or the media paid to either men's singles or women's singles. Even during the fabled Tennis Boom of the 1970s, no one cared about mixed doubles (except as a social event for club amateurs!). The intersections of the men's and women's games were more focused on, "Can Billie Jean beat Bobby?" and "Will Chrissie marry Jimmy?" At least men's and women's doubles have had recognizably great permanent teams that people still remember.
Are u one of those useless X trolls
Siniakova's ironic comment:
she needs to cope, nobody cares about mixed doubles
Wow Madison and tiafoe didn't make the direct entry. Surprising.Why aren't Tomáš Machac and Kateřina Siniakova, who won the mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics last year, on the list of couples who should participate in the new format of the US Open? Is this because the organizers are afraid that Siniakova is so good in doubles that she could beat top singles pairs with any partner? Discuss or be disgusted.
All I have to do is look athe graphic to quickly see how they've segmented the teams.
There are only two teams of same race non white people in the entire graphic. And one of the team's likely submitted to play together of their own volition as they are close friends in real life. So I'm not really sure what your eyes are telling you.
My eyes are seeing blacks paired with blacks paying against whites paired with whites. Don't look at me, I didn't make the draw. I just can't ignore the bigotry of the US Open.
I’m about as left leaning as they come, but man, you sure are reaching. We have maybe one black team who didn’t choose to be together, and we don’t even know that they didn’t. Also Badosa and Draper are another mixed race group as google would lead me to believe Badosa is hispanic. your case just doesn’t really hold up.
This is pretty much the dumbest post I've read lately. Do you think the players have any say in who they are paired with ? Pretty sure they do and they will choose someone who they like and who they want to play with, as you suggested with Venus and Opelka being friends. If you're Taylor Townsend and one of the best female doubles players in the world are you going to ask them to put you with someone like Jenson Brooksby as your partner ? No, you want a big serve and a great doubles player like Ben. Also, is no way is the US Open "going broke" they are making more money that ever.
I'm not blaming the players I'm blaming the new old timers at the US Open.
Brooksby has statistically the worst serve in the top 50, iirc.
Yet Brooksby has beaten Opelka and unlike Shelton, has a title this year.
We're talking about who the better doubles partner would be right ? If you want to compare accomplishments though, feel free to include ranking and performances at slams, etc.
