Kristina Mladenovic rips into US Open over plans for doubles tournaments

Kristina Mladenovic blasted the US Open over their reported plans for this 12 months’s occasion version as the previous world No. 1 thinks beginning the doubles tournaments through the qualifying week is “terribly shocking.”

Firstly of this week, a person on X posted in regards to the US Open’s plans to have the doubles tournaments begin earlier this 12 months.

If the event proceeds with their plans, the combined doubles occasion will begin through the qualifying week – particularly on Friday – three days earlier than the principle motion even begins.

Relating to the boys’s and girls’s doubles occasion, the plan is to have them kicked off on Friday as a substitute of a ordinary Wednesday begin. 

Mladenovic rips the US Open: Terribly stunning information

“Making it look like an exhibition for whoever wants to play! What about players playing singles Q that want/could with their doubles ranking play mixed?”

— Kristina Mladenovic (@KikiMladenovic) February 4, 2025

As you most likely know, Mladenovic has been one of the crucial profitable doubles gamers during the last decade. 

In ladies’s doubles, the 31-year-old is a six-time Grand Slam champion, having gained 4 French Open titles and two Australian Open titles, whereas she additionally completed 3 times as a runner-up on the US Open and misplaced one Wimbledon closing.

She has additionally had large success in combined doubles as she is a two-time Australian Open champion and has one Wimbledon title.

Final 12 months, Mladenovic did not win any Slam doubles titles however she was shut as Zhang Shuai misplaced the ladies’s closing at Flushing Meadows to Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko.

Kristina Mladenovic and Zhang Shuai© Kristina Mladenovic/Instagram – Honest Use

Contemplating that doubles are essential for the Frenchwoman, it’s not shocking that she does not need the US Open to experiment with the ladies’s and combined doubles tournaments.