Last week and this week there is an interesting debate taking shape about the potential for adding mixed doubles to the London Olympics schedule. This is a nice idea and it would be great to see what they end up doing with it. There are some problems that seem to arise everytime that mixed doubles happens. It was summed up by a tennis commentator back in the 70s, saying that mixed doubles is like the men’s game, just with two women on the court. This isn’t nearly as true now as it was then, because with some of the strongest players coming from the women’s game, the men can’t just ignore the women anymore. Just imagine a Federer and Serena Williams type combination. Obviously, they’re from different countries, so that wouldn’t happen, but just the image of two very strong players on each side of the net would be amazing. Why not mixed singles? I disagree with the writer of the opinion article on most of the counts he indicates, but clearly there are some issues to be ironed out.