Four years after they both won Olympic singles gold in Tokyo, Belinda Bencic and Alexander Zverev are teaming up to chase Grand Slam glory at the 2025 US Open Mixed Doubles Championship presented by Vital Proteins.
While it will be the pair's first mixed doubles outing together, they have competed against each other in the discipline: In the 2018 Hopman Cup final (trophy ceremony pictured above), Bencic paired with fellow Swiss Roger Federer to defeat Zverev and Angelique Kerber of Germany, 4-3(4), 4-2, for the title.
The US Open Mixed Doubles Championship will use a similar scoring format, with best-of-three-set matches played to four games each set, no-ad scoring and a 10-point tiebreak in lieu of a third set. The New York final, set for Aug. 20, will be a best-of-three, no-ad match with sets to six games and a 10-point tiebreak in place of a third set.
The cutoff for direct entry to the US Open field was so high that world No. 20 Bencic had to use a protected ranking to guarantee her place in the new-look event alongside world No. 3 Zverev. The Swiss star, who returned from pregnancy leave last October, used a protected ranking of No. 15 to enter the New York showcase. With the eight direct entrants determined by combined singles rankings, that moved Bencic and Zverev to sixth on the list.
In addition to their extensive singles resumes, both Bencic and Zverev are two-time tour-level doubles champions and have been ranked inside the doubles Top 75.
Bencic is also an Olympic silver medalist in doubles, having reached the Tokyo final in 2021 alongside fellow Swiss Viktorija Golubic. She won both of her WTA doubles crowns in 2015, with Katerina Siniakova in Prague and with Kristina Mladenovic in Washington, D.C.
Zverev won his doubles titles with brother Mischa Zverev, in Montpellier in 2017 and Acapulco in 2019. He has reached six additional finals, five with his brother and the other with Marcelo Melo at the 2024 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.
The US Open mixed competition will take place during Fan Week, Aug. 19-20, with $1 million in prize money awarded to the winning team.
Tickets for the mixed doubles action in Arthur Ashe Stadium are available via Ticketmaster and USOpen.org. Learn more about the event at the US Open Mixed Doubles Championship homepage—spectacular awaits!
