tennis
(tenɪs )
uncountable noun A1
Tennis is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court. The players use an oval racket with strings across it to hit a ball over a net across the middle of the court.
They are just playing amazing tennis.
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Collocations:
elite tennis tennis tournament wheelchair tennis
This means that the broadcaster will have no elite tennis for the first time since 1990.
Times, Sunday Times
Well, no doubt they had to be to break into the elite tennis world from their background of deprivation.
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When elite tennis players were measured for reaction speed - pressing a button as fast as possible after a light was illuminated - they were no faster than the average person.
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The change, announced yesterday at the start of this year's tennis tournament, brings an end to 135 years of tradition.
The Sun
She did it in an atmosphere that was more like that of a political convention than a tennis tournament.
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But clouds will clear away for the start of the tennis tournament.
The Sun
The company holds an annual tennis tournament on its staff court, encouraging healthy competition as well as a healthy lifestyle.
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The world's best-known tennis tournament has its own tiny station, which operates for the two weeks of the competition.
Times, Sunday Times
They include archery, indoor rowing, swimming, wheelchair tennis and track and field.
The Sun
Within six weeks he won his first wheelchair tennis tournaments.
The Sun
The couple made their first public appearance watching a wheelchair tennis game.
The Sun
Sold-out sessions in track cycling, swimming and the final rounds of wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis will be decided by ballot.
Times, Sunday Times
Wheelchair tennis was one she tried two months after becoming a paraplegic.
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Translations:
Chinese: 网球
Japanese: テニス
- reading skill
- read into
- readjust
- readjustment
- read lately
- read literature
- read music
- read my lips
- read out
- readout
- read poetry
- read scripture
- read silently
- read someone like a book
- read someone the riot act
- read the blurb
- read the headlines
- read the riot act
- read the room
- read the runes
- read the script
- read up on
- read voraciously
- read widely
- ready