Catherine Whitaker

Catherine Ann Whitaker (born 10 February 1986) is a British sports reporter, presenter and commentator for both television and radio, who has covered tennis and other sports for Eurosport, Amazon Prime Video UK, BBC Radio 5 Live, BeIn Sports, Perform and IMG Media. She is also co-presenter of The Tennis Podcast, a weekly podcast launched in 2012.[1]

Education

Whitaker was educated at Kendrick School in Reading and the University of Nottingham.

Life and career

Since 2015, she has been the on-site presenter for Eurosport at the US Open,[2] Australian Open[3] and French Open[4] tennis tournaments. She presents live coverage from the tournaments and interviews players.[5]

In June 2018, she presented the inaugural tennis coverage[6] of Amazon Prime Video in the UK at the Queen's Club Championships. She then hosted the first year of the Amazon Prime Video service's US Open coverage in the UK in August and September.

Since May 2012, she has co-presented The Tennis Podcast, a weekly downloadable podcast, with daily editions at the Grand Slam tennis tournaments. Her co-presenter is BBC tennis commentator David Law.[7] At Wimbledon, she reports and commentates for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Television.[8]

Prior to that, she was a presenter for Live at Wimbledon, the in-house TV channel produced by IMG Media for the Wimbledon tennis Championships.

Her other roles include commentating for WTA Media and ATP Tennis Radio, presenting the video content for the Queen’s Club Championships, and she has also presented BeIN Sports’ coverage of the WTA and ATP events in Doha.

In February 2018, she presented Eurosport’s Winter Olympic Games coverage in Pyeongchang. She has also commentated on Eurosport's figure skating programming, having trained as a figure skater between the ages of 5 and 18.

References
  1. "The Tennis Podcast: listen to the latest episode". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  2. "Eurosport to serve up best ever coverage of US Open - live and exclusively". Eurosport. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  3. "LIVE Australian Open Tennis". Eurosport. 2017-01-09. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  4. "French Open 2017 preview: Dates, TV info, tickets, odds on Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray". Eurosport UK. 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  5. "Roger Federer's Australian Open triumph gets fine treatment from Eurosport, but TV channel faces tough opponent in shape of Sky". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  6. Briggs, Simon (2018-06-13). "Amazon 'just getting started' as it prepares for tennis debut from Queen's". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  7. Slaney, Rowan (2017-05-19). "Being an absolute boss: podcasts of the week". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  8. "BBC - Wimbledon 2017 - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-09-07.


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