Sentence examples for a double player from inspiring English sources

The drumming group, an integral part of the Ura, typically consists of a lead drummer (pate taki), support lead (pate takirua), a double player (tokere or pate akaoro) playing wooden gongs, and two other players playing skin drums (pa'u and mango).

Was it a doubles player, a singles player?

Navratilova retired for three years but returned as a doubles player.

He is better known as a doubles player, but he was proud of his battle on Sunday.

"I got this label of a doubles specialist and a doubles player because I had good success," Stosur said the day before the final.

Mirza eventually won a berth in the 2003 Wimbledon junior girls' competition, as a doubles player with Russia's Alisa Kleybanova.

She reached No. 1 as a junior, advanced to the semifinals at Wimbledon and won two Grand Slams as a doubles player.

Instead, Serena Williams, who had no ranking as a doubles player by the cut-off date of July 10, was chosen to join Lindsay Davenport, Monica Seles and Serena's sister, Venus.

Perhaps that is because she has been occasionally dismissed as only a doubles player, part of a top tandem with Lisa Raymond that won 22 titles, including the 2005 United States Open and the 2006 French Open.

Among those who have tried were Michael Jordan (twice), Dara Torres during the recent Summer Games, Magic Johnson after his AIDS was stabilized, George Foreman after becoming a preacher, and Martina Navratilova, essentially as a doubles player after a long break.

"The fact is that John is not head and shoulders above any of us in his caliber as a doubles player right now," said Todd Martin, the senior American player and de facto diplomat.