4 h. ago US Open mixed doubles: Draper/Pegula v Alcaraz/Raducanu and more – live

Updates from the opening day action at Flushing MeadowsGet in touch! You can mail Daniel hereWe’re all friends here so we can be honest with each other: I’m not exactly at one with what we’re about to enjoy.Why? Because doubles tennis is a specific skill, nurtured and developed by players relying on it – and a system that’s operated for decades – to make a living. So confiscating a huge competition from them, to hand money to suits and superstars – who do not need it and are, individually and as pairs, less good at the actual sport – doesn’t sit right with me. Continue reading...

Events

7 h. ago World's richest tennis star made Emma Raducanu feelings clear as US Open clash awaits

Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz will face Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper at the US Open in New York after the mixed doubles event was completely revamped for 2025

Politics

11 h. ago US Open 2025 mixed doubles: Order of play, pairings, start times and prize money

Tennis’ biggest names will compete in a brand new format at the year’s final Grand Slam

Politics

11 h. ago What time are Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz playing today? How to watch US Open mixed doubles

Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz face Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula in first round of revamped tournament at Flushing Meadows

Politics

24 h. ago World’s best ready to sprinkle stardust on US Open mixed doubles | Tumaini Carayol

A revamped competition with the top singles players and held the week before the main tournament has caught attention at Flushing MeadowsA few hours after Taylor Fritz’s third-round match at the Cincinnati Open, the theme of his post-match press conference shifted from his tough victory against Lorenzo Sonego to the looming US Open mixed doubles tournament. The first question posed to him on this subject was carefully prefaced with the acknowledgment that mixed doubles was probably not his priority in the middle of one of the biggest tournaments in the world. As a grin spread across his face, Fritz quickly interjected: “It is a priority,” he said.Fritz had been asked whether he had any sympathy for the frustrated doubles specialists who had been brushed aside to make room for the transformation of this event. From his perspective, the right players were in the draw: “I’ve seen a lot of people calling it like an exhibition, or it doesn’t count. I personally think this is the stronges...

Politics

29 h. ago There's a $1 million prize and big names for 2025 US Open mixed doubles. Why are some people upset?

Grand Slam singles champions such as Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Iga Swiatek and Madison Keys will be playing for extra money — $1 million to the winning duo — and trying to get their hands on a trophy in the U.S. Open’s overhauled mixed doubles tournament on Tuesday and Wednesday

Economics

29 h. ago When are Raducanu and Alcaraz playing in US Open mixed doubles? Start time and how to watch

Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz face Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula in first round of revamped tournament at Flushing Meadows

Politics

4 d. ago Benedicte Maurseth: Mirra review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

(Hubro)Rhythmic repetitions and rustling textures evoke the traditional music and ecological harmony of Maurseth’s native NorwayA hardanger fiddle player from the fjord-and-mountain-filled region of Norway, where the instrument comes from, Benedicte Maurseth explores traditional music, nature and landscape influenced by the idea of ecosophy, a philosophy of ecological harmony. From childhood, she studied under master hardanger fiddler Knut Hamre, exploring the tunes, styles and effects associated with her instrument: its sympathetic strings, funnelled under the fingerboard, are particularly hypnotic, vibrating in response to the notes resonating above, as they do on the sitar and sarangi.A follow-up to Maurseth’s 2022 Nordic music prize-winning Hárr, Mirra is named after an old dialect word describing wild reindeer running together in a circling pattern. Norwegian folk’s rhythmic repetitions feed Maurseth’s intricate compositions (as do the influences of minimalism and Krautrock), b...

Politics

8 d. ago 'I can't sell my house': Locals furious over plans for giant solar farm nearly double the size of their village 'putting off' people buying their homes

Plans for a solar farm near the village of Weeton in Yorkshire have been opposed by locals who say it will 'transform' the 'cherished' natural landscape into an industrial site.

Society

9 d. ago Number of people paying dividend tax DOUBLES in two years to hit record 3.7m

Record numbers of investors are being stung by the dividend tax as they breach the reduced £500 tax-free allowance.

Economics

1 week ago Thousands hurry as 'sensational' £15 Primark breakfast set becomes 'man hunt'

The pyjamas are so popular that some people are bulk buying and reselling them for double the price

Economics

1 week ago Scotland’s property investment market giving out mixed signals in 2025

“Scotland isn’t immune to the geopolitical and economic uncertainty affecting the whole of the UK commercial property market” – Douglas McPhail, Colliers

Economics

1 week ago Neymar’s return to Brazil: mixed form, a fight with a fan and a few great goals

He has not always been fit or available for the team, but Neymar’s time back at Santos has certainly not been boring“Eu vou mas, eu volto!” Those are the words that Neymar famously scrawled on a wall in the home changing room of the Vila Belmiro in 2013 before he crossed the Atlantic to join Barcelona. His message to the Santos fans was clear: “I’m going but I’ll come back!”Great things were expected of the prodigious 21-year-old who had been reared at the academy that produced Pelé. Brazilians hoped he would lead them to their first World Cup on home soil in 2014, erasing the hurt of 1950, and go on to become their first Ballon d’Or winner since Kaká in 2007. As we now know, these conquests did not come to pass. Continue reading...

Sport

1 week ago Trump’s agriculture secretary doubles down on suggestion people should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid

Comments come after Secretary of Agriculture suggested last month that Medicaid recipients and automation would replace undocumented farm workers facing mass deportation

Politics

2 w. ago Love Island Toni and Angel's real names exposed as duo battle for £50k prize

Love Island's 2025 finale episode is set to air at 9pm on 4 August, but many fans may not know that two contestants have been going by different names this entire time...

Economics