What's the difference between racquet and tennis?

Racquet


Definition:

  • (n.) See Racket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He drops his racquet in disbelief and the pair of them embrace at the net.
  • (2) Because of the recent rapid increase in the number of knee injuries related to racquet sports, the authors undertook a retrospective study of such injuries seen over a 5-year period at the Toronto Western Hospital Sports Medicine Institute.
  • (3) Racquets were more common as the source of injury (61%) than squash balls.
  • (4) Static tests indicated that standards published by the Canadian Squash Racquets Association are inappropriate.
  • (5) In the video posted on YouTube , the supervisor is seen running off court and shutting the gate, at which point Abedini beats the gate with his racquet and kicks it while shouting at the official.
  • (6) The effectiveness of cushion grip bands in reducing impact shock and vibration transfer, and slipping in tennis racquets has been investigated.
  • (7) You have a platform that very few people will ever have ... You hit a tennis ball with a racquet over a little net, and just think what you can do with that, beyond trying to win Wimbledon."
  • (8) The authors report that in a 5-year period, 17% of the injuries seen in a busy sports injuries clinic were associated with racquet sports, and over half of these were injuries to the knee.
  • (9) Frequently during his defeat of Raonic, met with a line call he didn’t like, he would gawp at the linesman in mock shock, and drop his racquet and ball where he stood, drawing inevitable laughter.
  • (10) He hits a shot wide and smacks the barrier with his racquet.
  • (11) Changes in racquet variables, court surface, footwear, and string tension play an important part in treatment of both upper and lower extremity injuries.
  • (12) Laser beams were employed for precision adjustment of the spatial racquet position and the ball impact location.
  • (13) Racquet sports involve sharp, side-to-side movements and impose significant valgus and rotatory stresses on the knee.
  • (14) Within the last decade, there has been a significant increase in racquet sport participation.
  • (15) Some of the more common racquet sport injuries include tennis leg, jumper's knee, patello-femoral pain, meniscal injuries, bursitis, and tendinitis.
  • (16) was used together with a standard tennis racquet for the investigation.
  • (17) Middle-aged men, however, especially those with known coronary disease or coronary risk factors, should approach racquet sports with caution, and might benefit from timely medical advice.
  • (18) With its 1080p screen, 90-degree field of view and 360-degree head-tracking, the fundaments are in place – it seems the device will also recognise Move as a virtual controller, which means you’ll be able to look down in the game world and see it in your hands, perhaps as a gun, a torch, or a tennis racquet.
  • (19) Over 90% of the patients returned to their chosen racquet sport within 3 months of the arthroscopy and most were playing at a similar performance level to that before the initial injury.
  • (20) Most fractures were thought to have occurred while the patient was swinging a racquet, golf club, or baseball bat.

Tennis


Definition:

  • (n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
  • (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The calf pain prodrome of "tennis leg" requires rest and then a stretching program.
  • (2) I’ve been in tennis for 10 years and he has always given 100%.
  • (3) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
  • (4) At each age level the boys consistently performed better than the girls in four of the six motor tests (catching, standing long jump, tennis ball throw and speed run).
  • (5) The possibility of a connection between grip tightness during and after the impact phase and the occurrence of the well-known "tennis elbow" is also discussed.
  • (6) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
  • (7) Responding to a question from host Karl Stefanovic about Kyrgios’s behaviour at Wimbledon and Tomic’s attack on Tennis Australia , which led to him being dumped from the Davis Cup team, Fraser said: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
  • (8) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
  • (9) The party was founded to fight for a better deal for thousands of local co-operatives during the first world war, and in the years afterwards elected a handful of MPs (including Sam Perry, the father of Fred Perry the tennis champion).
  • (10) As Johanna Konta contemplates the next stage of her wide-reaching tennis journey and a possible place in the fourth round of the US Open, she recalls in a quiet moment how it all started, and how she might never have played the game at all but for the fact there were tennis courts next to her school.
  • (11) We look forward to many more years of working with Maria.” Sharapova, who has been provisionally banned while the International tennis Federation decides her fate, has thanked her fans for their support and vowed to return to the game.
  • (12) The start of 2016 has seen a worldwide focus on alleged match-fixing in tennis,” said the report.
  • (13) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
  • (14) As a result she won’t be watching her son in the final because she has flown back to prepare Britain’s women’s tennis team for the Federation Cup, starting in Budapest on Wednesday.
  • (15) Participation in vigorous sports activities, such as jogging, swimming, tennis, etc., helps to protect against the development of hypertension, even when other predisposing factors are present.
  • (16) Last week ITV snatched the rights to the French Open tennis tournament , as the BBC looks to reduce what it spends on sport as part of the "Delivering Quality First" cost-cutting initiative.
  • (17) If the scoreline has a pleasing symmetry, the tennis was gruesome to watch – at least from the Luxembourg bench, where their coach, the human rights lawyer on his holidays, Jacques Radoux, looked as if he had just been asked to defend Rebekah Brooks.
  • (18) There is a bit of tennis left in this tie, with Australia awaiting in the semi-final following their comeback win against Kazakhstan.
  • (19) I know that he’s playing the tennis of his life in last 15 months.
  • (20) Today it is a Russian banker paying for a couple of sets of tennis with the PM and the mayor of London.

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