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See also: anti-tennis
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Adjective[edit]
antitennis (comparative more antitennis, superlative most antitennis)
- Rare form of anti-tennis.
- 1957 April 22, Arthur Edson, “Probing Congressmen Cover Much Territory”, in The Cumberland News, volume 19, number 163, Cumberland, Md., page 3:
- The tennis coach, Allie Ritzenberg, was sent to Port au Prince, Haiti, by the State Department, and he came in for considerable congressional attention. / Rep. John J. Rooney (D-NY) led the antitennis bloc.
- 1995, Adrianne Blue, “An Affair to Remember”, in Martina: The Lives and Times of Martina Navratilova, New York, NY: Carol Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 93:
- Nancy, the next important woman in Martina's life, would say irately that Rita Mae wanted Martina to give up tennis and become an architect or a lawyer. Although Rita Mae denies that she suggested any specific career, she does admit there was an antitennis impetus.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:antitennis.