Possible Clues:

• Tennis court not equipped for the players' performance?
• Can't play tennis with this; it has so many parts
• Band of nine?
• Saw retreating group
• Nothing to catch the music with
• You can't land a fish with so many parts in it
• Without me, she's a bit musical
• Work involving individual in Holy Writ
• Small choir, maybe
• Nobody comes to tea without a mesh, it seems