The main draw for the US Open takes place today with defending champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka among the big names to discover who their first round opponents will be. Both players sit top of their respective world rankings and will be keen to defend their titles in New York over the next couple of weeks.

The team of Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz - an alliance with the power to turn the tennis public into a gaggle of giggling, gossiping teenagers - were bumped out in the first round of the US Open’...

Raducanu lost her serve in the opening game, and although there were no further break points in the first set, that was enough for Draper and Pegula to clinch it.

The radical change to the event with the aim of attracting the big-name players usually missing from grand slam doubles has been successful but controversial.

Jack Draper was jokingly told off by Jessica Pegula after he accidentally called the US Open mixed doubles an 'exhibition' tournament.

The updated mixed doubles championship will consist of best-of-three-set matches, with short sets of up to four games.