Swiss tennis star Belinda Bencic won the women's tennis gold medal in Tokyo Olympics 2020 singles.
Bencic of Switzerland is also contesting the women's doubles gold medal match where she could add another in doubles.
The 12th-ranked Bencic beat Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic for the first major title of her career.
Bencic and Swiss partner Viktorija Golubic face the top-seeded Czech team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova.
Federer and Wawrinka won gold together in men's doubles in 2008 then Federer lost the 2012 singles final to Andy Murray at Wimbledon.
Not even Martina Hingis, the Swiss player who Bencic's career was inspired after, claimed an Olympic title.
Melanie Molitor, Hingis' mother, coached Bencic as a junior.
Marc Rosset was the only previous Swiss player to win gold in Olympic singles, in 1992.
Bencic's previous best result was reaching the semifinals of the 2019 U.S. Open.
Neither Federer nor Wawrinka entered the Tokyo Games.
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