tenniswoman

English

Etymology

From French tenniswoman. Equivalent to tennis +‎ -woman.

Noun

tenniswoman (plural tenniswomen or tenniswomans)

1. (non-native speakers' English) A female tennis player.
   • 1999 November 7, etienne.wala, “VIDEOS OF GREAT TENNIS MATCHES”, in alt.video.tape-trading‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

     I will speak whit a tenniswoman please can you me whrit .

   • 1999 November 21, Sank76, “FRENCH TENNISWOMAN”, in alt.tennis‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

     I'm french (rouen) and i think that french tenniswomans will be the best. mary pierce is 5, nathalie tauziat is 7, julie halard-decugis is 9 and amelie mauresmo is 10. i think it's very great!
     what do you think about french tenniswomans?
     what do you think about french tennis in generality?
     tnanks, seb

   • 2005 June 5, Carty Staniu, “Tenniswomen demand less prizemoney”, in rec.sport.tennis‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

     Give the tenniswomen their "own" grandslams: the first 2 days for the women with a 16 players draw and playing two matches a day which is easy because they play best of three "matches" only.

   • 2008 December 8, Vari L. Cinicke, “... Agassi sues Graf”, in rec.sport.tennis‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

     In this case, fake nude photos of Steffi Graf, the retired tenniswoman, showing her head morphed to another woman's nude body, were posted on a Web site run by the ISP Microsoft Germany. She asked the company to remove the pictures that appeared on its site. The ISP complied with her request but the tenniswomen asked also the company to sign an undertaking that they would not appear again.

French

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, from tennis +‎ English woman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.ni.swu.man/

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Noun

tenniswoman f (plural tenniswomen or tenniswomans, masculine tennisman)

1. a female tennis player

Further reading

• “tenniswoman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.