Sentence examples for the tennis started from inspiring English sources

But once the tennis started there was little room for sentiment.

Before the tennis started at Roland Garros last month, doctors traced their target on Navratilova's skin with blue ink.

"Back in the '70s, when World Team Tennis started and Billie Jean King spearheaded the league, the matches were played in places like Madison Square Garden," noted McEnroe, a tennis participant at every level of the game from exhibitions, to team tennis to Davis Cup to the Grand Slam tour.

Alexandra, whose twin brother, Grayson, was also accepted at the School of American Ballet but who prefers tennis, started at 4 in a pre-ballet class in another studio.

She is the oldest woman to be No. 1 since tennis started its computer rankings in 1976.

Because of that, tournament officials moved the women's singles final to Sunday from Saturday night before Saturday's tennis started.

There have been around 60 drugs cases since tennis started testing 22 years ago.

But with 22 local clubs in sports such as football, netball and tennis starting to use the facilities, they quickly realised they needed something else.

The LTA will also have a new chief executive, Mike Downey who is coming from Canadian tennis, starting in January.

As The Independent revealed last week, the tennis authorities started the tournament with a "watch list" of between six and 12 players, including Russians, Argentines, Italians and Spaniards, who would be under scrutiny because of past involvement in matches where suspicious betting happened and match-fixing was suspected.

Table-tennis started out 50 years ago as a game for old ladies.