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Martina Navratilova and Jimmy Connors were the participants of the “Battle of the Sexes III” tennis match in September 1992. In tennis, “Battle of the Sexes” describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case.

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In 1988 Summer Olympics, tennis got returned as a full medal sport, when it was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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Venus Williams became the first tennis player to win a medal at four separate Olympic games, as well as the first player in the Open Era to win an Olympic medal in all three events (singles, doubles, mixed).

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Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock are the tennis players that won the gold medals in mixed doubles at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The tennis tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre, in Brazil, from 6 to 14 August. The competition was played on a fast hard court surface used in numerous North American tournaments that aims to minimize disruption for players.

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The “Thomas Cup” is a Badminton competition. The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men’s Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the sport’s global governing body. The championships have been conducted every two years since the 1982 tournament, amended from being conducted every three years since the first tournament held in 1948–1949.

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Saina Nehwal is the first Indian badminton player to have won an Olympic medal. Saina Nehwal is an Indian professional badminton singles player. A former world no. 1, she has won over 24 international titles, which includes eleven Superseries titles. She has represented India three times in the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in her second appearance.

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Parupalli Kashyap is an Indian badminton player. Parupalli Kashyap is a badminton player from India. He created history by reaching the quarter-finals of men’s singles at the 2012 London Olympics, is the first male player from India to do so.

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Switzerland hosted the 2019 Badminton World Federation World Championships. The 2019 BWF World Championships was a badminton tournament which was held from 19 to 25 August 2019 at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.

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Chen Yufei is a Chinese badminton player. She won the girls’ singles junior titles at 2016 Asian and the World Junior Championships. At the same year, Chen clinched her first senior title at the 2016 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold. She reaches a career-high as world number 1 in BWF World ranking on 17 December 2019.

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Hungary hosted the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships. The 2019 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from 21 to 28 April 2019. It was the 55th edition of the championships and the fourth time that they were held in Budapest.