Venus Williams and Amanda Anisimova are among the players added to the US Open mixed doubles list

Venus Williams is paired with Reilly Opelka and Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova is joined by Holger Rune on Monday s updated list of teams that have signed up to try to enter the newfangled U S Open mixed doubles tournament next month A total of duos are on the latest entry list issued by the U S Tennis Association Only will make the field for the Aug - competition that will pay the winning club million The deadline for entries is a week away That s when the eight duos with the highest combined singles rankings will gain official acceptance for the event The USTA will select the other eight teams and give them wild-card invitations The mixed doubles was moved to the week before the start of competition in the singles brackets Singles matches begin on Aug In addition to Williams a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion who is and entered the tournament in Washington this week for her first competition in more than a year with Opelka and Anisimova with Rune other new teammates broadcasted Monday include Katie Boulter and Alex De Minaur who are engaged to be married Donna Vekic and Hubert Hurkacz Karolina Muchova and Andrey Rublev Iva Jovic and Jenson Brooksby Gaby Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime Demi Schuurs and Tallon Griekspoor Katerina Siniakova and Marcelo Arevalo Desirae Krawczyk and Evan King and Su-Wei Hsieh and Jan Zielinski The original group of expected participants was circulated last month and included Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud Jasmine Paolini and Lorenzo Musetti Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev Madison Keys and Frances Tiafoe Jessica Pegula and Tommy Paul Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic Naomi Osaka and Nick Kyrgios Taylor Townsend and Ben Shelton and last year s U S Open mixed doubles champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori It s a star-studded cast that is quite different from the mix of doubles specialists usually revealed in a Grand Slam mixed doubles bracket Several criticized the changes when they were revealed in February with Errani and Vavassori calling the new format a pseudo-exhibition focused only on entertainment and show that would shut out true doubles players AP tennis https apnews com hub tennis Source