professional tennis
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- noun
- /prəˈfɛʃənl ˈtɛnɪs/
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tenis profesional
- Competing in professional tennis requires both physical stamina and mental strength.
- professional tennis player
She is a former professional tennis champion.
- She is a former professional tennis champion.
Examples
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Blessed with majestic movement, balance, and a seemingly ageless body, he has managed his schedule carefully to ensure he continues to lead a golden era of men's professional tennis.
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The tie-breaker in professional tennis enables matches to be completed within a designated time period.
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You're a professional tennis player.
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She is a former professional tennis champion.
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Listen, win or lose, and I can't see how I'm possibly going to win, tomorrow will be my last professional tennis match.
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Yet players like Sam Groth, very aware of the conditions of a career in professional tennis, have their hands out for assistance from the top players.
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Nowadays, lots of people don't know how difficult it is to be a professional tennis player and what every player needs to go through to be who he is now.
Blog text (4) -
A third strategy was to expose the students to successful professional tennis players and university tennis players who would discuss the work ethic and the good grades required to achieve their successes.
Academic text (1995) -
Defrancesco and Burke found that goal setting, self-talk, and imagery were among the most commonly utilized psychological skills by a large sample of professional tennis players.
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MaliVai Washington, a professional tennis player, shared his goal-setting strategies, acknowledged his love for the sport, and described the work ethic that led to a respectable world ranking.
Academic text (1995)
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'professional' (someone who does something for pay) with 'tennis' (the sport); it clearly denotes playing tennis as a paid profession rather than as an amateur activity. This is a regular compositional noun phrase pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Professional tennis comes from when players began to be paid to play. The word professional means doing something 'for pay' rather than as a hobby, so professional tennis means playing tennis as a paid job.