TENNIS PLAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tennis player mean? 

• TENNIS PLAYER (noun)
  The noun TENNIS PLAYER has 1 sense:

1. an athlete who plays tennis

  Familiarity information: TENNIS PLAYER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENNIS PLAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An athlete who plays tennis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tennis player" is a kind of...):

participant; player (a person who participates in or is skilled at some game)

athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tennis player"):

professional tennis player; tennis pro (someone who earns a living playing or teaching tennis)

receiver (the tennis player who receives the serve)

Instance hyponyms:

Virginia Wade; Wade (English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945))

Big Bill Tilden; Tilden; William Tatem Tilden Jr. (United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953))

Monica Seles; Seles (United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973))

Martina Navratilova; Navratilova (United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won nine Wimbledon women's singles championships (born in 1956))

Helen Newington Wills; Helen Wills; Helen Wills Moody; Moody (United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998))

Ivan Lendl; Lendl (United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships; in 1992 he became a United States citizen (born in 1960))

Laver; Rod Laver; Rodney George Laver (Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938))

Billie Jean King; Billie Jean Moffitt King; King (United States woman tennis player (born in 1943))

Graf; Steffi Graf; Stephanie Graf (German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969))

Althea Gibson; Gibson (United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003))

Chris Evert; Chrissie Evert; Christine Marie Evert; Evert (United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954))

Davis; Dwight Davis; Dwight Filley Davis (United States tennis player who donated the Davis Cup for international team tennis competition (1879-1945))

Court; Margaret Court (Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947))

Connors; James Scott Connors; Jimmy Conors (outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952))

Connolly; Little Mo Connolly; Maureen Catherine Connolly (United States tennis player who was the first woman to win the United States, British, French, and Australian championships in the same year (1953) (1934-1969))

Budge; Don Budge; John Donald Budge (United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000))

Arthur Ashe; Arthur Robert Ashe; Ashe (United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993))

 Context examples 

It occurs in tennis players as well as housewives, artisans, and violinists.

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