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Sports Briefing | Tennis: Federer and Hingis Team Up for Olympics

Switzerland’s two greatest tennis players will join forces at next year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics when Roger Federer and Martina Hingis play mixed doubles together.

Federer, 34, who won a gold medal in 2008 when he partnered with Stan Wawrinka in Beijing, last played alongside Hingis, 35, at the Hopman Cup in 2001.

Hingis came out of retirement for a second time in 2013 and won the women’s doubles at this year’s Wimbledon and United States Open with Sanis Mirza. Hingis has never won an Olympic medal.