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 U.S. Open tennis championships, in New York. Andrea Vavassori ...

Following her 7-5, 6-4 final win over Jasmine Paolini to earn her first Cincinnati Open title on Monday night, the world No. 2 took a private jet along with Carlos Alcaraz to New York to arrive in time for the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament Tuesday.

Iga Swiatek shrugged off lingering weariness to partner Casper Ruud to back-to-back victories in the revamped mixed doubles competition at the US Open on Tuesday.This year's US Open mixed doubles competition is being held over Tuesday and Wednesday in the week before the main singles draws get under way.

Iga Swiatek hilariously cut off Casper Ruud and corrected him during their post-match interview following their US Open mixed doubles win. Swiatek and Ruud have teamed up for this year's US Open mixed doubles.

Swiatek and Casper Ruud lost in three sets to Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori in the US Open mixed doubles final.

This time, it felt like a little bit more than “a bit of an exhibition” for Jack Draper.  Draper described the first two rounds of the revamped mixed doubles tournament at the U.S. Open in that

Ruud didn’t always feel quite so calm about it. He was dining in New York while Swiatek played her title match in Ohio and keeping a close eye on the score. He was secretly chatting with Swiatek’s team throughout the match — “she doesn’t know this,” Ruud said with a laugh — and wondering about their doubles match the next morning.

Look no further than Iga Swiatek. Earlier this summer, the sky was falling for Swiatek. She failed to defend any of her clay court titles, sank in the WTA Rankings, and was fielding outlandish questions about possibly skipping the grass court season altogether (luckily, that did not happen).