mixed doubles

American

noun

(in tennis) a doubles match with a man and a woman on each side.

mixed doubles British

plural noun

tennis a doubles game with a man and a woman as partners on each side

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He also won the 2020 Australian Open with Ram, and two mixed doubles titles with Desirae Krawczyk.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Open organizers overhauled the mixed doubles tournament and offered a $1 million prize last year in hopes of attracting the sport’s biggest stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Serena Williams will team up with Carlos Alcaraz for the US Open mixed doubles this coming week.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Open’s starry mixed doubles event, but that’s the hope, with the journalist Ben Rothenberg reporting Alcaraz has been planning to compete with none other than Serena Williams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Then there are what I call mixed doubles: pairs of words and phrases that are routinely confused, like affect and effect.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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