Wimbledon has no plans to revamp mixed doubles after success of ‘reimagined’ US Open | Wimbledon

The All England club does not seek to change the format of the Double Wimbledon competition for the future editions of the championships despite the success of the “rethought” tournament at the US Open.

This year, the United States Tennis Association has chosen to transform the format of the event into a mixed double in order to attract the main players in single, a movement that officials believe that it has an incredible success and which presented partnerships such as Emma Raducanu associated with Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek alongside Casper Ruud.

The tournament took place before male and female singles on an Arthur Ashe stadium on closed counters and the Louis Armstrong stadium, attracting a total of 78,000 fans. It was finally won by the champions of the previous year, the specialists in double Errani and Andrea Vavassori, but many stars nevertheless expressed the hope that other Grand Slam tournaments would reproduce the event. “I think it would be cool if all the slams did this,” said Jack Draper, who reached the semi-finals with Jessica Pegula.

Raducanu was just as effusive. “It would be so fun that all the Slams got involved and did something similar, even if it was not exactly the same format,” she said. “I think it was a huge success. So many fans were involved, so many people watching and passed. It attracted a lot of attention.”

There is currently no appetite to the All England Club for the format of its mixed double tournament to change. The current configuration is considered to be a key element in the fortnight of Wimbledon and the double is generally more appreciated in Wimbledon, each of the competitions attracting a greater crowd during the tournament.

However, the success of the mixed event and the “fan week” of the US Open in New York still illustrated since Wimbledon has lagged behind the rest of the Grand Slam tournaments. In recent years, the Australian Open, the French Open and the United States Open have become three-week events, each of these Grand Chelem tournaments providing for a large number of events during the qualification week.

Wimbledon remains looking for its fragiles shorts of grass and space limited to the Club All England, with the qualification event which takes place more than three kilometers in Roehampton. The organizers tried to solve this problem with its Wimbledon Park project, which aims to transform the golf course of Wimbledon in front of the club into an extension of the tournament land, allowing the Wimbledon organizers to welcome qualification tournaments on site and to explore its own version of a week before the tournament.

The project, which would take many years, had to sail in many legal complaints. The remaining obstacle is a legal process to determine whether there is a statutory trust in the field, which means that the land must be used for public recreational purposes.