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Tennis To-do:

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Cleanup : Take an item off the Cleanup listing
Copyedit : Roger Federer, Leander Paes, Rafael Nadal, Justine Henin – to be used as examples for ideal page structures
Expand : Grab a Start article and expand it, or peruse the List of articles.
Photo : Add photos to Tennis or Tennis people articles
Stubs : Bring a Stub up to our standards.
Other : *Sign up as a member of the project.
Tag more articles with our standard project template.
Help with the creation of yearly main articles and drawsheets for every Open Era ATP and WTA tournament.

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To-do list:

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Article requests :
Requested articles (Sports)
Requested articles (Association football)
Requested articles (Association football women)
Requested articles (Motor sports)
Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople)
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
* Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
* Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
* Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
* Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
* Sport industry (currently a sub-stub)
Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories.
Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs
Update : List of world sports championships
Other :
- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

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Semi-protected edit request on 20 October 2022

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jpllease replace : Synthetic gut cheap by: synthetic gut is cheap

There is a verb missing inn that sentence. 173.176.235.175 (talk) 20:10, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Actually, heave the whole strings section a more general copyedits. Some bad grammar there. oknazevad (talk) 20:47, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 29 January 2023

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Novak Djokovic AwareAllure (talk) 16:17, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DoneNot actually clear what is being requested here; on the assumption that it is that Djokovic be listed as having 22 Grand Slams i have updated that. Happy days ~ Lindsay^Hello 16:28, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 29 January 2023 (2)

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Rafael Nadal AwareAllure (talk) 16:57, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done AwareAllure, it would be much easier to respond to you if you followed the directions clearly given in the template you are using: This template must be followed by a complete and specific description of the request, that is, specify what text should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. Having guessed once, i'm not willing to again. Happy days ~ Lindsay^Hello 17:49, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Modern tennis invention?

So I'm a bit confused as what makes it "modern".

The French aristocracy invented the game, the racket, and even the term tennis.

The British then played it on a lawn, and popularized it; and this somehow means they invented modern tennis?

It sounds a bit flimsy. Or maybe there was a part that was deleted? Maybe about inventing new rules or inventing anything? Esteban Outeiral Dias (talk) 08:10, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding but I believe “modern tennis” is to differentiate from Real tennis which was played many centuries ago Knows everything about everything (talk) 04:23, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

nicknames...

there seems to be a thing where players don't have their nickname(s) in their infobox. is there a reason for this I'm missing? Electricmaster (talk) 14:23, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You would want to ask that at the Wikiproject Tennis talk page, not here, as it's not about this article. oknazevad (talk) 22:33, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

However, nicknames wouldn't be the norm for infoboxes. Heck they aren't the norm for the lead section either. That would be minor stuff left to the personal section unless it's the main name a player goes by. It's different for wrestlers or boxers whose personas sometimes revolve around a nickname. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:09, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 29 July 2024

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Under Grand Slam Tournament Winners section Iga Świątek is missing with her 5 Grand Slam wins thus far. Sebecq (talk) 11:51, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Charliehdb (talk) 14:48, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]