Sentence examples for mixed doubles taking from inspiring English sources

The fact that the Olympic tournament will be played at Wimbledon, the home of tennis, only serves to make the event even more special - and there will be another title up for grabs this year, with mixed doubles taking its place in the schedule.

Nine more medals on the final day –including gold for Lizzie Armitstead in the women's cycling road race and Chris and Gabby Adcock in the badminton mixed doubles – took England's tally to 174, comfortably surpassing their pre-Games target of 130 to 145.

And, in badminton, Imogen Bankier and Robert Blair took bronze in the mixed doubles event to take Scotland's overall medal tally to 52.

Hingis, who was knocked out by Mirza and Croatia's Ivan Dodig in the mixed doubles quarter-finals, took a medical time-out at the end of the first set to have treatment to her right shoulder but did not appear troubled.

Mixed doubles you have to play a full eight ends.

In the mixed doubles, the third-seeded Australians took an early lead but Barker and Waters led 6-2 early in the second before Palmer and Grinham fought back to make it 10-10 and then win the sudden-death point.

The win marked Navrat-ilova's first at SW19 since she took the mixed doubles title with Jonathan Stark in 1995.

In 1997 he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam when he took the mixed doubles French Open crown along with Japan's Rika Hiraki.

Such was Martina Hingis's excitement at winning her first Wimbledon title in 17 years in the ladies' doubles on Saturday night that she could not get to sleep until 3am – but if anything she was even more dazzling less than 24 hours later as she and the Indian maestro Leander Paes took the mixed doubles crown.

Ouseph and the Adcocks are aiming to be the first British winners of the All England event - badminton's answer to Wimbledon - since Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms took the mixed doubles title in 2005.

Azarenka, 23, won two Olympic medals in London, taking gold in mixed doubles and bronze in singles.