Carlos Alcaraz is among a number of tennis stars who have come under fire for saying that they will enjoy the US Open's new mixed-doubles event.

Emma Raducanu was all smiles in a BBC interview where she was asked about her relationship with Carlos Alcaraz as the tennis duo are set to compete together in the US Open Mixed Doubles tournament

It has all the ingredients of a Richard Curtis summer hit: two remarkably good-looking leads in Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz (she of the magazine covers, he of the bullet-speed aces), a “meet-cute” over the tennis nets,