tennis player

/ˌtɛnəs ˌpleɪər/

/ˈtɛnɪs ˈpleɪə/

Other forms: tennis players

Definitions of tennis player

1. noun

   an athlete who plays tennis
   examples:

   Arthur Robert Ashe

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

   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)

   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)

   James Scott Connors

   outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952)

   Margaret Court

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

   Dwight Filley Davis

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

   Christine Marie Evert

   United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)

   Althea Gibson

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

   Stephanie Graf

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

   Billie Jean Moffitt King

   United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)

   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)

   Ivan Lendl

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

   Helen Newington Wills

   United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

   Martina Navratilova

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

   Monica Seles

   United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973)

   William Tatem Tilden Jr.

   United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953)

   Virginia Wade

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

   types:

   receiver

   the tennis player who receives the serve

   professional tennis player, tennis pro

   someone who earns a living playing or teaching tennis

   type of:

   athlete, jock

   a person trained to compete in sports

   participant, player

   a person who participates in or is skilled at some game