Alcaraz and Serena Williams already have a start time at the US Open

The US Open revealed more details of the so-called ‘Fan Week’, the week of the fan. He communicated the match program for Tuesday on the center court, Arthur Ashe Stadium, which will be dominated by the mixed doubles in the daytime session. At night it will be the turn of Roger Federer that will share an exhibition with Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi and John MeEnroe.

Carlos Alcaraz and the American Serena Williams They have known the schedule of their debut earlier than the couple they will face, since they must leave the preliminary phase that is held this Monday.

On Tuesday, many figures on the court. At 11 in the morning, five in the afternoon Spanish peninsular time, opening with the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and the Serbian Novak Djokovic facing the Canadian Leylah Fernandez and the American Frances Tiafoe, if she recovers in time from the effort of the final of the ATP Masters 1000 in Cincinnati.

Carlos Alcaraz and Serena Williams will play mixed doubles at the 2026 US OpenUSOPEN

In the second turn, a match still to be decided. Not before 7:00 p.m., the American Taylor Townsend and the German Alexander Zverev they make their debut against the Swiss Belinda Bencic and the Italian Flavio Cobolli. From this match will come the quarterfinal meeting with the best of the clash of Carlos Alcaraz and Serena Williams.

These will enter the stadium not before 2 pm in New York, 8 pm Spanish. It would be more logical, with the fourth double of the playing order starting around 9:00 p.m. Up front they will surely have two tennis players with less name but more accustomed to the double, which is the profile of the pairings of the previous phase.

Tuesday’s order of play

Mixed double

Arthur Ashe Track (5:00 p.m.)
A. Sabalenka/N. Djokovic (Blr/Srb/1) vs. L. Fernandez/F. Tiafoe (Can/USA/WC)
Next
2nd round match to be decided
(not before 7:00 p.m.)
B. Bencic/F. Cobolli (Sui/Ita/4) vs. T. Townsend/A. Zverev (USA/Ale/WC)
(not before 8:00 p.m.)
S. Williams/C. Alcaraz (USA/Esp/WC) vs. Quality​
​Next
2nd round match to be decided

They are the round of 16, which will be followed by the quarterfinals on the same Tuesday, since on Wednesday the semifinals and final of an event in which the Italian specialists defend their titles will take place. Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori.

Andrea Vavassori, left, of Italy, and Sara Errani, of Italy, hold up the championship trophy after defeating Iga Swiatek, of Poland, and Casper Ruud, of Norway, in the mixed doubles final at the US Open tennis championships, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
The Italians Andrea Vavassori and Sara Errani, mixed champions in the previous version (2024) and in the new one (2025)Yuki Iwamura / Ap-LaPresse

There was already a loss in the main draw, the Polish Iga Swiatekwhich alluded to the fatigue of having won the Toronto title and the Cincinnati semifinals. Her position as partner of the Norwegian Casper Ruud has been inherited by the Russian Diana Shnaider, who had been left out of the competition due to the resignation of her compatriot Daniil Medvedevwho is playing the ATP 250 in Winston Salem.

The US Open, which will continue until Sunday, September 13, can be seen on television on the Sports channels of Movistar Plus+. The premiere of Carlos Alcaraz and Serena Williams will also be narrated in the live broadcasts of the Mundo Deportivo website. The individual tournament will be played starting Sunday, August 30.