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tennis player

Noun

An athlete who plays tennis (synset 110720829)
is a type of:
- athlete, jock - a person trained to compete in sports
- participant, player - a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
subtypes:
- receiver - the tennis player who receives the serve
- professional tennis player, tennis pro - someone who earns a living playing or teaching tennis
specific instances:
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- connors, james scott connors, jimmy conors - outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952)
- court, margaret court - Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947)
- davis, dwight davis, dwight filley davis - United States tennis player who donated the Davis Cup for international team tennis competition (1879-1945)
- 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)
- althea gibson, gibson - United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)
- graf, steffi graf, stephanie graf - German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969)
- billie jean king, billie jean moffitt king, king - United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- martina navratilova, navratilova - United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won nine Wimbledon women's singles championships (born in 1956)
- monica seles, seles - United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973)
- big bill tilden, tilden, william tatem tilden jr. - United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953)
- virginia wade, wade - English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)

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