Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz were knocked out early from the 2025 US Open mixed doubles. Their exit highlights challenges in the new Fan Week format and saw other top stars bow out too.

Certain tennis fans have spent the summer arguing that Carlos Alcaraz’s mixed-doubles partnership with Emma Raducanu was the US Open’s idea, and came about for commercial reasons, rather than being an organic arrangement between two old friends.

Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz’s all-star partnership was brought to a premature end as they were beaten in the first round of the revamped US Open mixed doubles.