The US Open tennis tournament showed it’s never too late to spice things up, even heading into its 145th year. The mixed doubles competition, largely an afterthought in the past, debuted a revamped format this week and energized crowds at Arthur Ashe ...

Andrea Vavassori and Sara Errani won the U.S. Open's Mixed Doubles Championship Wednesday and earned a $1 million prize.

For all of the excitement and controversy that came with the overhauled US Open mixed doubles tournament, by the time the two-day event was over, it was last year’s champions wh

Italian pair Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori complete their "mission" by beating Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud to win the revamped US Open mixed event.

There was a learning curve, this week, for fans at the US Open's new mixed doubles format. A group of spectators at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Wednesday night could be heard at one point trying to wrap their heads around the shortened format of the matches (which saw sets played to four games before the final).

Andrea Vavassori took aim at US Open organisers for not allowing doubles players to enter the revamped mixed doubles event after getting a win with Sara Errani on Tuesday. The tournament has been given an overhaul this year, being played over two days in the week before the US Open gets underway.

Jannik Sinner pulled out of the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament shortly before it began on Tuesday, a day after he quit in the first set of the Cincinnati Open final because he was feeling ill. The No.