| NETTER | Tennis player, in sports articles |
| STETS | Info in sports articles |
| ATHLETICS | Sports articles covering league responses |
| IRONWARE | Press report of sport articles that were forged? |
| NLER | Certain pro baseball player, in sports page shorthand |
| STRO | Houston M.L.B. player, in sports shorthand |
| ICEMAN | Certain clutch player, in sports parlance |
| SCRUB | Below-average ball player, in sports slang |
| ASHE | Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, Arthur ... won his first title as a professional tennis player in 1970, taking the Australian Open singles |
| ICERS | Hockey players, in sports stories |
| TEAMS | Groups of players in sports |
| TEAMROSTER | List of players, in sports |
| REDWANSKA | Agnieszka ---, in 2012, became the first Polish tennis player in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam singles final (9) |
| KERBER | Angelique - - -, tennis player in Germany's team, runnersup in the 2019 Hopman Cup Final (6) |
| NASTASE | Tennis player in hospital - back seat casualty (7) |
| USELESS | Poor and ineffectual tennis player in America (7) |
| AGASSI | Gold medal-winning tennis player in 1996 |
| BORG | Tennis player in Bilbao, relaxing on vacation |
| SELES | World's number one female tennis player in 1991 |
| PALAVER | Old man, former tennis player in fuss (7) |
