Jack Draper has made it clear that Jessica Pegula, a former world No. 1 in doubles, didn’t “let down” the team at the US Open on Wednesday night. The British-American duo paired up for the revamped mixed doubles tournament and reached the semi-finals before losing a tight match to Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud.

The much-talked-about pairing of Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz fell to an early exit in the US Open’s mixed doubles competition on Tuesday, losing their first-round match and failing to win a set.

US OPEN action is HERE – with the freshly revamped mixed doubles set for a thrilling climax TODAY! Top seeds Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula will face Iga Swiatek and Casper Ruud in the first

Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula beat Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets before going on to book semi-final berth; watch mixed doubles semi-finals and final from midnight on Thursday live on Sky Sports Tennis,

Jack Draper narrowly missed out on an appearance in the new-look US Open mixed doubles final. Draper and American Jessica Pegula went into the event, played for the first time in the week before the main tournament, as the top seeds and eased through to the last four on Tuesday, including beating Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz in the first round.

Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz’s all-star partnership was brought to a premature end as they were beaten in the first round of the revamped US Open mixed doubles.

While Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula may have said all of four words to each other before teaming up for this week’s U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament, the two already sound like an “old married couple.

Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament shortly before it was scheduled to begin