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unusual facts about Mixed Doubles


Miloslav Hamr

In March 1936, he teamed with Gertrude Kleinová to win the gold medal in the Mixed Doubles 10th World Table Tennis Championships in Prague, in a competition that saw them defeat Americans Buddy Blattner and Jay Purves in the preliminaries as they won 21–19 in the fifth game.



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1953 Maccabiah Games

On the men's side, Grant Golden, who was ranked # 2 in the US that year, captured three gold medals in the men's singles (over South African Sid Levy), the men's doubles with partner Pablo Eisenberg, and the mixed doubles with Kanter.

1984 French Open – Mixed Doubles

The Mixed Doubles tournament at the 1984 French Open was held from 26 May until 10 June 1984 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

1987 French Open – Mixed Doubles

The Mixed Doubles tournament at the 1987 French Open was held from 25 May until 7 June 1987 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

1989 French Open – Mixed Doubles

The Mixed Doubles tournament at the 1989 French Open was held from 29 May until 11 June 1989 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

1991 Hopman Cup

Yugoslavia's Goran Prpić and Monica Seles won the championship by winning both of their singles matches against Zina Garrison and David Wheaton, and even though it did not matter, won the mixed doubles match as well.

2012 BWF World Junior Championships – Mixed doubles

The Mixed Doubles tournament of the 2012 BWF World Junior Championships was held from Oktober 30 until November 3.

Antonio Giannini

Giannini played with Fabiola Ramos at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, winning the gold medal in mixed doubles.

Antonio Giannini is a table tennis player from Venezuela, champion in the mixed doubles and team competition of the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Archibald Warden

In 1900 he won a bronze medal in mixed doubles event with Hedwiga Rosenbaumová of Bohemia.

Badminton at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games – Mixed doubles

These are the results of the mixed doubles competition in badminton at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in Jakarta.

Bao Yixin

In the Girls Doubles event she was crowned BWF World Junior Champion 2010 with Ou Dongni and in the Mixed Doubles she was crowned BWF World Junior Champion 2010 with Liu Cheng.

Brian Voss

In that season, at age 51, Voss won his 25th PBA Tour title—a mixed doubles championship with Diandra Asbaty.

Cheung Yuk

At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, Cheung and his new partner Jiang Huajun captured the silver medal in the mixed doubles, with a set score of 1–4, losing out to the host nation's duo Xu Xin and Guo Yan.

Chico Senior High School

Matt Lucena, 1995 U.S. Open Tennis Mixed Doubles champion with Meredith McGrath, and NCAA men's tennis doubles champion at the University of California in 1990 with Doug Eisenman and with Bent-Ove Pedersen in 1991, Class of 1988;

Chris Jogis

Between 1985 and 1992 Jogis won the U.S. men's singles title six times, and shared the men's doubles title four times and the mixed doubles title twice.

Dan Jenson

At the inaugural World Doubles Squash Championships in 1997, Jenson won the mixed doubles event (partnering Liz Irving), and finished runner-up in the men's doubles (partnering Craig Rowland).

Diandra Asbaty

Champion at 2010 PBA Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles tournament (with Brian Voss)

Edith Cross

In 1930 she won the U.S. National Championships mixed doubles title with Wilmer Allison after a straight two sets victory in the final against Marjorie Morrill and Frank Shields.

Fabiola Ramos

Ramos won 4 gold medals at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, in singles defeating Luisana Pérez, in doubles with Luisana Pérez, in team competition with María Ramos, María Mata and Luisana Pérez and in mixed doubles with Antonio Giannini.

Grant Golden

In 1953, Grant, who is Jewish, competed in the Maccabiah Games and captured three gold medals in the men's singles (over South African Sid Levy), the men's doubles with partner Pablo Eisenberg, and the mixed doubles with partner Anita Kanter.

Hope Crisp

In the 1913 Wimbledon Championships, he won with Agnes Tuckey the first mixed doubles final at Wimbledon in an unusual fashion - one of their opponents Ethel Thomson Larcombe was struck in the eye by her partner's miss-hit smash and unable to continue the match.

Jan Lehane

However, Mike Sangster and O'Neill lost the 1964 mixed doubles final to Court and Ken Fletcher.

O'Neill, had more success in the mixed doubles, twice winning the title (in 1960 with Trevor Fancutt and 1961 with Bob Hewitt).

Joseph Cameron Alston

Despite a career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation which sometimes interfered with his avocation, Alston is the only male player to win each of the sport's three basic events, singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, at both the U.S. National Badminton Championships (closed to foreign competition) and the U.S. Open Badminton Championships (open to foreign competition).

Joseph Kneipp

Kneipp won a Gold Medal in the mixed doubles at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, partnering Natalie Grinham.

Joyce Fitch

In 1946, 1947 and 1949 she reached the finals of the Australian Championships in mixed doubles with partner, John Bromwich and again in 1950 with Eric Sturgess, losing all four times.

Júlio Góes

He entered the singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles at the 1983 French Open, the only occasion he played in all three draws.

Kreigh Collins

He also was a doubles finalist in 1901 and 1903 (both times with L. Harry Waidner), and a mixed doubles finalist in 1901 (with Carrie Neely).

Kurt Nielsen

With Althea Gibson, Nielsen won the US Open mixed doubles in 1957, thereby becoming the first Dane to have ever won a Grand Slam event as a senior.

Lany Kaligis

At the 1966 Asian Games at Bangkok, she won the gold medal in the women's singles, the gold medal in the women's doubles with Lita Liem, the bronze medal in the mixed doubles with Soen Houw Goto.

Lita Liem Sugiarto

At the 1966 Asian Games at Bangkok, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles, the gold medal in the women's doubles with Lany Kaligis, and the bronze medal in the mixed doubles with Sutarjo Sugiarto.

Marjorie Cox Crawford

She also teamed with her husband Jack Crawford, a six-time winner of singles titles in Grand Slam tournaments and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, to win the mixed doubles title at the Australian Championships in 1931, 1932, and 1933.

Mary-Ann Eisel

In 1968 she won the U.S. National Championships mixed doubles title with Peter Curtis by defeating Tory Fretz and Gerry Perry in straight sets.

May Sutton

She also teamed with Miriam Hall to win the women's doubles title and came close to making it a clean sweep by advancing to the mixed doubles final.

Mike Tredgett

He shared three All-England mixed doubles titles (1978, 1980, 1981) with Nora Perry and reached the All-England men's doubles final twice with Ray Stevens (1972, 1980) and twice with Martin Dew (1983, 1984).

Misbun Sidek

In 2002 he won gold medals at the World Masters Games in Melbourne, Australia for age 35-and-over men's singles and mixed doubles and for the national team competition there.

Nathan Healey

He lost a close match against American Mardy Fish (7–5, 7–5), but then teamed with Alicia Molik to win the mixed doubles (6–4, 7–5) against Fish and Ashley Harkleroad.

Neale Fraser

Fraser was also successful in the mixed doubles, winning the Australian in 1956 with Beryl Penrose, Wimbledon in 1962, and the US from 1958 to 1960 with Margaret Osborne duPont.

Patrice Dominguez

Dominguez was runner–up at the 1973 French Open mixed doubles event partnering Betty Stöve and again in 1978 partnering Virginia Ruzici.

Pia Nielsen

She won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Championships in women's doubles with Inge Borgström, a bronze medal in mixed doubles at the 1980 World Championships with Steen Fladberg, and a silver medal in mixed doubles with Fladberg in the 1983 Championships.

Rodney Durbach

Durbach won a bronze medal in the mixed doubles at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, partnering Natalie Grainger.

Slovakia at the Hopman Cup

2 In the final round robin tie of 2004, Australia had to concede both the women's singles and the mixed doubles to Slovakia due to an injury to Alicia Molik.

1 In 2000, Henrieta Nagyová was forced to retire during her singles match in the tie against Thailand and was also unable to compete in the mixed doubles, thus forfeiting both points.

4 German Nicolas Kiefer was forced to retire in the men's singles versus Slovakia and was unable to compete in the mixed doubles, thus conceding both points to the Slovaks.

Steen Fladberg

He was a silver medalist at the same tournament in mixed doubles with Pia Nielsen.

Steen Skovgaard

In 1980 Skovgaard won a bronze medal in men's doubles with Flemming Delfs, and in 1982 another bronze medal in mixed doubles with Anne Skovgaard.

Trevor Fancutt

In 1960 Fancutt, partnering Jan Lehane, won the mixed doubles title of the Australian Championships, defeating Christine Truman and Martin Mulligan in straight sets.

Winnie Shaw

She never won a major tournament, but she reached the finals of both the ladies doubles and the mixed doubles, and twice made it to the semi-finals in the French Open.

Wouter Claes

Wouter won 20 Belgian titles, 10 in men's doubles with Fréderic Mawet and Ruud Kuijten, 10 in mixed doubles with Manon Albinus, Corina Herrle and Nathalie Descamps.