Desirae Krawczyk
Desirae Marie Krawczyk (; born January 11, 1994) is an American professional tennis player who specialises in doubles.
Krawczyk has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 10, achieved in July 2022, and has won seven titles on the WTA Tour, ...
and
Joe Salisbury
Joe Salisbury ( ; born 20 April 1992) is a British professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a five-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2020 Australian Open, the 2021 US Open and the 2022 US Open in men's ...
defeated
Giuliana Olmos
Giuliana Marion Olmos Dick (born 4 March 1993) is a Mexican professional tennis player.
Olmos, who graduated from the University of Southern California in 2016, has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 343 by the Women's Tennis Associati ...
and
Marcelo Arévalo
Marcelo Arévalo González (; born October 17, 1990) is a Salvadoran professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 5 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 14 November 2022. ...
in the final, 7–5, 6–2 to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 2021
US Open. By winning the title, Krawczyk and Salisbury received their third and second
major mixed doubles title, respectively. Their victory together made Krawczyk the first player to win three consecutive mixed doubles major trophies since
Mahesh Bhupathi in 2005 and 2006, and the seventh player in the
Open Era
The racket sport traditionally named lawn tennis, invented in Birmingham, England now commonly known simply as tennis, is the direct descendant of what is now denoted real tennis or royal tennis, which continues to be played today as a separate sp ...
to win
three mixed doubles titles in a single season. Salisbury became the first man to win both the men's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the US Open in the same year since
Bob Bryan
Robert Charles Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. He has won twenty-three Grand Slam titles: 16 in men's doubles and 7 in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin ...
in
2010
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.
Arévalo became the first player from
Central America
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to reach a
Grand Slam final.
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Bethanie Mattek-Sands ( Bethanie Lynn Mattek; born March 23, 1985) is an American professional tennis player. She has won nine Grand Slam titles (five in women's doubles and four in mixed doubles), and an Olympic gold medal, and is a former ...
and
Jamie Murray
Jamie Robert Murray, (born 13 February 1986) is a Scottish professional tennis player from Scotland who specialises in doubles. He is a seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion (five in mixed doubles and two in men's doubles), a Davis Cup win ...
were the two-time defending champions, having won the most recent editions in
2018
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and
2019
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,
but lost in the first round to
Andreja Klepač and
Joran Vliegen.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Other entry information
Wild cards
Protected ranking
Alternates
Withdrawals
*
Květa Peschke
Květoslava Peschke (née Hrdličková; born 9 July 1975) is a Czech retired professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles.
She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 26 in November 2005, winning one WTA singles title ...
/
Kevin Krawietz
Kevin Krawietz (born 24 January 1992) is a German professional tennis player who specialises in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the French Open doubles title in both 2019 and 2020 alongside compatriot Andreas Mies. Th ...
→ replaced by
Dayana Yastremska /
Max Purcell
Max Purcell (born 3 April 1998) is an Australian professional tennis player.
He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships in doubles alongside Matthew Ebden. The pair also finished runners-up at the 2022 Australian Ope ...
*
Elena Rybakina /
Andrey Golubev → replaced by
Ellen Perez /
Marcelo Demoliner
Marcelo Fedrizzi Demoliner (born 18 January 1989) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, he won his first title at the ATP 250 Antalya Open with Santiago González in June 2018, after having reached six finals at that ...
*
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲɛrə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at ...
/
Tim Pütz → replaced by
Hayley Carter /
Hunter Reese
See also
*
2021 US Open – Day-by-day summaries
The 2021 US Open described in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries.
Day 1 (August 30)
* Seeds out:
** Men's Singles: John Isner 9 Ugo Humbert 3 Cameron Norrie 6 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 9 Marin Čilić 0 Filip Krajinov ...
References
External links
Main Draw
{{DEFAULTSORT:2021 US Open - Mixed Doubles
US Open - Mixed Doubles
US Open - Mixed Doubles
Mixed Doubles
US Open (tennis) by year – Mixed doubles