tennis match

collocation in English

meaningsoftennisandmatch

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tennis
noun[U]
uk
/ˈten.ɪs/us
/ˈten.ɪs/
a game played between two or four people on a special playing area that involves hitting a small ball across a central net using ...
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match
noun
uk
/mætʃ/us
/mætʃ/
mainly UK
a sports competition or event in which two people or teams compete against ...
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(Definition oftennisandmatchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftennis match

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The identification of the goal of hitting is thus determined in the intension of wining thetennismatch.
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To do otherwise, by simply focusing on the child's responses as a source of 'information', would be like watching only one player in atennismatch.
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No one with any reason would object, say, to a few hundred people paying to watch a tabletennismatch.
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He said that this debate should not be a politicaltennismatch.
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They have put this debate on a dignified basis, and treated it as a serious matter, and not as a politicaltennismatch.
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It is like a ball in atennismatchbeing tossed backwards and forwards.
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I wish they would stop regarding this matter as atennismatch.
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There will be atennismatch, passing the ball one to the other.
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I would find it very difficult to say what is likely to happen in a lawntennismatch.
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A friendlytennismatchor cricket match between two village teams does not require many people to service it.
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This is as hard on the neck muscles as watching atennismatch.
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In 1963, the arena was host to a professionaltennismatch.
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The murals depict three of the sports played at the new facility, a baseball game, atennismatch, and a football game.
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However, a bookmaker would probably offer odds of 5-6 (for example) on each of the two possible outcomes in each event (eachtennismatch).
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People consider this match the greatesttennismatchof all-time.
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When thetennismatchended at 6:32 p.m.
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The 1954 final set the record for the largest crowd at a sanctionedtennismatch, 25,578.
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It holds the highest evertennismatchattendance record.
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The game was turning into atennismatch.
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Befuddled, he watches a mimedtennismatch, is drawn into it, picks up the imaginary ball and throws it back to the two players.
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