professional tennis player
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- noun
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tenista profesional
- Sam Groth, a lowly ranked Australian professional tennis player, recently wrote about the struggles of life at the lower end of the ATP tour.
- become a professional tennis player
- former professional tennis player
Examples
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Serena Williams is a renowned professional tennis player who has won numerous Grand Slam titles.
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And she always knew that she was... gonna be a professional tennis player.
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You're a professional tennis player.
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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.
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So a, a top professional tennis player will have spent hours and hours and hours, days, years of their life practicing how they hit a very basic stroke, a forehand.
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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.
Academic text (1999) -
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) -
As a professional tennis player, he travels the world competing in tournaments and coaching young athletes.
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To become a successful professional tennis player, extensive practice and dedication are essential.
Synonyms
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A person who plays tennis for money or teaches tennis as a job
How Professional
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Surface Forms
Morphology
professional + tennis + player
The meaning is fully compositional: 'tennis player' (a person who plays tennis) modified by 'professional' (someone who does it for pay) yields a person who plays tennis as a paid career. This modifier + noun pattern is common across languages and follows transparent English noun phrase composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Professional tennis player shows a simple idea: professional means 'paid' and a tennis player plays the sport. So a professional tennis player is someone who plays tennis to 'earn money', either by competing in tournaments or by coaching.