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USA Today · Aug 5, 2016

The Latest: Yulia Efimova's status still uncertain for Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

9:10 p.m.

The Swiss Olympic tennis team is a "little smaller" than initially expected, as Timea Bacsinszky put it. And with a lot less star power.

With Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka and Belinda Bencic all out because of injury issues, Bacsinszky and Martina Hingis are now the only two players on the squad. Hingis was originally supposed to play doubles with Bencic and — in a highly anticipated pairing — mixed doubles with Federer. Now she's just playing doubles with Bacsinszky, who will also compete in singles.

"Of course I was very excited," Hingis said of the plan to join forces with Federer.

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