tennis coach
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈtɛnɪs koʊtʃ/
:
entrenador de tenis
- Every week, the tennis coach provides individual feedback to each of the players.
- school tennis coach
She is Serena Williams, former tennis coach.
- She is Serena Williams, former tennis coach.
Examples
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My tennis coach helped me improve my serve and overall technique.
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A tiebreak competition was set up by the second author who is also a tennis coach.
Academic text (2002) -
The former Harvard tennis coach told his team a decade ago that he was gay.
Blog text (25) -
My college tennis coach had a favorite maxim: "Never change a winning game."
Blog text (1) -
For example, a tennis coach can offer to give a lesson to anyone who donates $30 to the Red Cross.
Blog text (11) -
She was also the junior varsity tennis coach at the high school.
Blog text (7) -
Longtime Pioneer High School tennis coach Tom "Brick" Pullen was humbled and a little embarrassed to be honored by the Ann Arbor school district Wednesday night.
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The tennis coach organized a series of drills to enhance the players' skills.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who trains others in sports or skills
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1.3
A person who teaches skills, for example in sports or with animals
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3.2
A person who plays tennis for money or teaches tennis as a job
How Skilled
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4.5
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2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'tennis' names the sport and 'coach' names a trainer, so together they denote a person who trains tennis players. This is a regular noun–noun compound with no idiomatic shift and follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Tennis coach gives the picture of a person at the side of a court who watches every shot and gives tips. The word coach suggests someone who 'carries' a player forward, so a tennis coach helps 'train and improve' a player's game.