tennis player

English

Noun

tennis player (plural tennis players)

a tennis player

1. A person who plays tennis, especially professionally. (This entry is a translation hub.)
   • 2014, Luke Russell, Evil: A Philosophical Investigation, page 166:

     By way of analogy, let us consider what it takes to be a good or bad tennis player. An extremely good tennis player must possess a mastery of the many different activities that are part of the game—serving, returning, and running around the court […]

Synonyms

• tennisman (non-native speakers' English)
• tenniswoman (non-native speakers' English)
• tenniser (rare)

Translations

a person who plays tennis

• Armenian: (male) թենիսիստ (hy) (tʿenisist), (female) թենիսիստուհի (tʿenisistuhi)
• Azerbaijani: tennisçi
• Basque: tenislari (eu)
• Belarusian: тэнісі́ст m (tenisíst), тэнісі́стка f (tenisístka)
• Bulgarian: тениси́ст m (tenisíst), тениси́стка f (tenisístka)
• Catalan: tennista (ca) m or f, tenista (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 網球運動員／网球运动员 (wǎngqiú yùndòngyuán), 網球員／网球员 (wǎngqiúyuán)

• Czech: tenista (cs) m, tenistka (cs) f
• Danish: tennisspiller (da) c
• Dutch: tennisspeler (nl) m, tennisspeelster (nl) f, tennisser (nl) m, tennisster (nl) f
• Estonian: tennisist
• Finnish: tennispelaaja (fi) (any); tennisammattilainen (professional)
• French: joueur de tennis m, tennisman (fr) m, tenniswoman (fr) f
• Galician: tenista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: ჩოგბურთელი (čogburteli)
• German: Tennisspieler (de) m, Tennisspielerin (de) f
• Greek: τενίστας (el) m (tenístas), τενίστρια (el) f (tenístria)
• Hungarian: teniszező (hu), teniszjátékos (hu)
• Italian: tennista (it) m or f by sense
• Japanese: テニス選手 (tenisu senshu)
• Kazakh: теннисші (tennisşı)
• Korean: 테니스선수 (teniseuseonsu)
• Kyrgyz: теннисчи (tennisci), теннисист (tennisist)
• Latvian: tenisists m
• Lithuanian: tenisininkas m, tenisininkė f
• Macedonian: тенисе́р m (tenisér), тенисе́рка f (tenisérka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tennisspiller (no) m, tennisspeller (no) m

  Nynorsk: tennisspelar m

• Persian: تنیسور (tenisor)
• Polish: tenisista (pl) m, tenisistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tenista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: tenisman (ro) m, tenismană (ro) f
• Russian: тенниси́ст (ru) m (tɛnnisíst), тенниси́стка (ru) f (tɛnnisístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тенисер m, тенисерка f

  Roman: teniser m, teniserka f

• Slovak: tenista m, tenistka f
• Slovene: tenisač m, tenisačica f
• Spanish: tenista m or f
• Swedish: tennisspelare (sv) c
• Tajik: теннисбоз (tennisboz)
• Turkish: tenisçi (tr)
• Ukrainian: теніси́ст m (tenisýst), теніси́стка f (tenisýstka)
• Uzbek: tennischi (uz), tennisist
• Vietnamese: người chơi quần vợt, người đánh ten-nít, tay vợt