By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Photograph credit score: BNP Paribas Open Fb
Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz joined forces to win the Eisenhower Cup.
Palm Springs success is a prelude to the pair reuniting for the US Open blended doubles, Fritz stated.
Assembly the media on the BNP Paribas Open at present, Fritz stated Rybakina is a perfect companion—and hopes they will run it again once more on the US Open.
“I believed she performed nice final night time. She did all the things that I’d, I suppose, all the things I might ask of a blended doubles companion,” Fritz instructed the media in Indian Wells. “I feel it is a good match. Yeah, I requested her to play as a result of I used to be on the lookout for a US Open blended companion, and she or he stated that she needs to.
“She simply has to test, I suppose, along with her crew and all the things. Hopefully it will get cleared.”
If it occurs, former Wimbledon winner Rybakina and US Open finalist Fritz can be the second high-profile pairing already publicly committing to US Open blended doubles.
Stefanos Tsitsipas confirmed he plans to play blended doubles with long-time girlfriend Paula Badosa on the 2025 US Open.
Final August, Tsitsipas and Badosa celebrated what the Greek known as “one of many coolest date nights I might have requested for” after they received the inaugural US Open Combined Insanity exhibition.
Tsitsidosa overcame a gifted subject that featured Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios, Amanda Anisimova and Taylor Fritz and Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton with $250,000 in prize cash on the road.
The Italian duo of Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori defeated Taylor Townsend and Donald Younger to win the 2024 US Open Combined Doubles championship.
The USTA introduced main adjustments to the 2025 US Open Combined Doubles format, together with enjoying your complete competitors throughout qualifying week, the week earlier than the US Open principal draw.
Tsitsipas stated he and Badosa plan to play the 2025 US Open Combined Doubles.
“We’re planning to play. She’s the blended doubles companion I’d all the time play with,” Tsitsipas instructed the media in Dubai final month. “I haven’t got some other choices on the market or some other feminine participant that I’d wish to play blended doubles with.
“She’s all the time beneath my consideration and all the time somebody I’d wish to share the court docket with.”
