mixed doubles

Paired coed competition

Mixed doubles is a format in racket sports and some other competitions where teams consist of one male and one female player competing together against another male-female pair.

The term appears most often in tennis, badminton, and table tennis: They won the mixed doubles at Wimbledon.

Distinguished from men's doubles and women's doubles, where teammates are the same sex.

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