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Roger Federer is preparing for what could be treble duty on court at next summer’s Rio Olympics, with La Matin reporting that the Swiss will reprise a partnership from a decade and a half ago with Martina Hingis in mixed doubles.
Federer, 34, and Hingis, 10 years his senior. won the Hopman Cup mixed team event in Perth, in 2000. Now the Lausanne paper reports that Federer has agreed to partner Hingis at the Games. But that’s not all for what will surely be the final Games appearance for all-time great Federer.
He is also likely to play doubles with Stan Wawrinka – that pair won the 2008 Beijing gold – as well as competing in singles, where he finished runner-up to Andy Murray at London 2012.
The rest of the Swiss players are also looking to full schedules, with Hingis and teenaged Belinda Bencic teaming in the women’s doubles and Wawrinka playing with fellow Vaudois Timea Bacsinszky in mixed.
“Why not try for all of the golds,” said Severin Lüthi, Federer’s coach, the Davis Cup captain and also head of the Swiss Olympic tennis delegation.
“We can always dream. The ideal would be that each athlete can play at least one doubles event along with singles.”
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