tennis player
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- noun
- /ˈtɛnɪs ˈpleɪər/
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tenista
- As a young tennis player, she practiced every day to improve her skills.
- a professional tennis player
- collegiate tennis players
- female tennis players
Which tenor, which tennis player do you hate the most?
- Which tenor, which tennis player do you hate the most?
- Yeah, my position is like a good tennis player, not to make unforced errors.
- He looked at Olympic swimmers, world class tennis players, scientists, musicians, chess players.
- So like a lot of the work they do is with tennis players and football players.
- Let's say that I'm the greatest tennis player of all time.
- I know Novak Djokovic, who's probably the greatest tennis player, is the greatest tennis player of all time.
- So she's moved on from female sports teams, and she's now obsessing over tennis players.
- I, so I had fundamentals that could make me a good athlete, could make me a good tennis player.
- So the Williams sisters, the great tennis players have done fast food companies, Michael Jordan did fast food companies, Kobe Bryant.
- It's not just tennis players, it can be baseball players, it can be, it can be pitchers, other athletes.
Examples
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No, I'm a tennis player who happens to be a woman.
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Let's say that I'm the greatest tennis player of all time.
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So like a lot of the work they do is with tennis players and football players.
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The best tennis player of all time.
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If you were a tennis player, who would you want to be like?
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So, I hear you're quite a tennis player.
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He was a hell of a tennis player.
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Our fathers were both strong tennis players, but John had inherited more of his father's gift.
Academic text (2007) -
Serena Williams is considered a dominant tennis player on the planet, but she has a coach.
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Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, I was a near-great junior tennis player.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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A person who plays tennis for money or teaches tennis as a job
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A person who plays tennis and earns money from it
How Skilled
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Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a simple noun+noun compound where the modifier 'tennis' specifies the kind of 'player', so a learner who knows 'tennis' and 'player' can directly infer 'a person who plays tennis'. The compositional pattern (sport + player) is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English noun modification, making it immediately transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The phrase tennis player comes from combining tennis (the game with a racket and a ball) and player (someone who plays). The clear picture of a person hitting a ball on a court explains why it means 'a person who plays tennis' as a hobby or a job.