Tennis is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tennis in a sentence
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Tennis meaning
- A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- A match in this sport.
- An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
Synonyms of Tennis
Using Tennis
- The main meaning on this page is: A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets. | A match in this sport. | An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
- Useful related words include: lawn tennis, court game.
- In the example corpus, tennis often appears in combinations such as: the tennis, table tennis, tennis player.
Context around Tennis
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tennis
- In this selection, "tennis" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, table, professional, love, star, association and club stand out and add context to how "tennis" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a court tennis facility and, a professional tennis star but, tennis player, tennis club and tennis association. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tennis" sits close to words such as bike, complicated and witnesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tennis
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The events are para-table tennis, table tennis (able-bodied) and deaf table tennis. (14 words)
Ariake Tennis Park will host the tennis and wheelchair tennis at the Olympics and Paralympics respectively. (16 words)
Hays is on a small tennis committee along with athletic director Win Palmer and a tennis parent. (17 words)
Tennis main In tennis, grass is grown on very hard-packed soil, and the bounce of a tennis-ball may vary depending on the grass's health, how recently it has been mowed, and the wear and tear of recent play. (41 words)
Table tennis Table Tennis racket with 3 different sizes of the celluloid ball main Table tennis uses a table tennis racket made from laminated wood covered with rubber on one or two sides depending on the grip of the player. (40 words)
We love tennis, I know that sounds funny, but me, my wife and kids absolutely love tennis and a lot of times you can find me on the base tennis courts in the evening after work. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
On Saturday, March 11, a busload of Palisades Tennis Club members from Newport Beach arrived at Indian Wells for the BNP Tennis Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden: aka Tennis Paradise.
Table tennis Table Tennis racket with 3 different sizes of the celluloid ball main Table tennis uses a table tennis racket made from laminated wood covered with rubber on one or two sides depending on the grip of the player.
Formerly a collegiate and professional tennis player, and still a tennis coach, she learned tennis age 7 and has been playing the game ever since.
A remarkable young tennis player from Sherborne St John has taken the regional tennis scene by storm, clinching victory at the Under-16 'Fast Four' tournament at Ash Manor Tennis and Pickleball near Farnham.
Eugenie Bouchard, 30, of Canada, is a professional tennis star but also plays pickleball, which is a game that combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis and can be played indoors or outdoors.
Tougas was a senior director at a U.S. Tennis Association training facility in College Park for 12 years and is a U.S. Professional Tennis Association Elite Tennis Professional and PTR Adult Professional.
We love tennis, I know that sounds funny, but me, my wife and kids absolutely love tennis and a lot of times you can find me on the base tennis courts in the evening after work.
Ariake Tennis Park will host the tennis and wheelchair tennis at the Olympics and Paralympics respectively.
Meanwhile, the John Mott Tennis Courts on the Parkway have received a grant from the United States Tennis Association to help offset some of the tennis-related expenses associated with re-opening the courts.
Players hit the court at Grovedale Tennis Club on Tuesday for a Universal Tennis Rating session, part of a Tennis Victoria series across regional Victoria.
Putting on tennis exhibitions as part of the dedication were, Gary Hockey, Australian tennis star, Ab Deweese of Philadelphia, Bobby Brien, also an Australian tennis star, and Charles Mars of Philadelphia.
The events are para-table tennis, table tennis (able-bodied) and deaf table tennis.
Tennis main In tennis, grass is grown on very hard-packed soil, and the bounce of a tennis-ball may vary depending on the grass's health, how recently it has been mowed, and the wear and tear of recent play.
Center Court Live: U.S. Open Series — Semifinals: Winston-Salem Open (ATP)/Tennis in the Land (WTA) — Tennis Channel, 2:30 p.m.
Djokovic created the breakaway body from the men's professional organisation Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), with members of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour joining too.
Eventually, men from the Winter Colony bought property on Newberry Street, built a court tennis facility and clubhouse and started the Aiken Tennis Club, which opened in 1902.
Gohl was front and centre in the successful bid from Table Tennis North to bring the 2023 Canadian Table Tennis Championships to Hay River next month.
Hays is on a small tennis committee along with athletic director Win Palmer and a tennis parent.
He's the South African-born tennis star who plays for Great Britain and turned pro after making All-American in US college tennis.
Hubbard is a Tennis Canada Certified Level 3 Coach and was awarded a Tennis B.C. Award of Excellence in 2018.
Phrases with tennis
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Common combinations with tennis
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: