Our look at the highest-paid tennis players exemplifies this kind of equality in the game.
Tennis players dominate the top 10, making up half the list, while golfers nab three spots.
Knee surgeons are as particular about their implants as professional tennis players are about their racquets.
Just like other top athletes, tennis players can apparently concentrate amid the din of the crowd.
It's why tennis players claiming grunts are a distraction sounds weird to the casual sports fan.
Most tennis players claim to treat every opponent the same and practice harder than they play.
Professional tennis players might argue that they are under no obligation to be anything except competitive.
Serena Williams has been a role model for aspiring young women tennis players for over a decade.
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Tennis players, for example, are allowed to question line judges a maximum of three times per set.
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The best golfers and tennis players try to leverage prize money into even bigger paydays from corporate sponsorships.
Should U.S. tennis players only use Wilson racquets (which I believe are the only racquets made in the U.S.)?
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While the top-ranked pros play on the two main courts, junior tennis players compete on a host of side courts.
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This made it difficult for footballers to claim non-domiciled status but made sense for many golfers, tennis players and drivers.
Like all major tennis players, Nadal, who has won 11 Grand Slams, is tested wherever he travels with no warning.
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"It's a Disneyland for tennis players, " said Peter Carnello, a Swedish entertainment executive whose son, Lancelot, trains full-time at the Neff facility.
There are countless cases of pro tennis players battling with their parents.
All told, there are 5.4 million frequent tennis players in the United States, according to TIA data, down 3% from last year.
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Cyprus chose to bring men's tennis players instead of women's players, because "The boys have better potential, " said Dean Georgiou, assistant national coach.
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The data clearly shows that American male tennis players were well accounted for in the upper-echelon of professional tennis from 1978 through 1996.
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Change has been slow even in high-profile tournaments: only in 2007 did Wimbledon equalise the winning prize money for tennis players of each sex.
Former pro Justin Gimelstob isn't surprised that tennis players are susceptible.
The sponsorship market has been slow in recent years with the weak economy, but elite tennis players are an attractive bunch to pitch products for companies.
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Five of the top 10 women on the list, as well as the top 3 women (Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Venue Williams) are tennis players.
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Tilden was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1959 and in any polls of all-time great tennis players always features in the top order.
One of the world's best tennis players lost Wednesday to a guy who just weeks ago was driving himself eight hours to play in low-profile U.S. tournaments.
Men's tennis players, frustrated by what they describe as a grueling playing calendar and unfairness in the distribution of prize money, are rallying against the sport's governing bodies.
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Open title in 1929 as well as being twice a losing finalist, goes down in the history books as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
His mural includes walkers, dogs, tennis players, trees and flowers.
Making tennis players more entertaining should not take so long.
Tennis and golf are vastly different endeavors, and tennis players peak earlier than golfers, who have long careers, and nobody knows where the 22-year-old McIlroy will wind up before he's through.
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