Catherine Ann Whitaker (born 10 February 1986) is a British sports reporter, presenter and commentator for both television and radio, who has covered

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and other sports for

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, Amazon Prime Video UK,

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, BeIn Sports, Perform and

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. She is also co-presenter of The Tennis Podcast, a weekly podcast launched in 2012.

Education

Whitaker was educated at Kendrick School in

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and the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

Life and career

Since 2018, Catherine has presented the ATP, WTA and US Open tennis coverage for UK rights-holder Amazon Prime Video. She has also been an on-site presenter for

at the US Open,

Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Th ...

and

French Open The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ...

tennis tournaments. 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. At Wimbledon, she has reported and commentated for

and

BBC Television BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1927. It produced television programmes from its own studios from 193 ...

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

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tennis Championships. Her other roles have included commentating for WTA Media and

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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

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coverage in Pyeongchang, and voiced the opening and closing ceremonies to the Tokyo Summer Olympics. She has also commentated on Eurosport's figure skating programming, having trained as a

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

between the ages of 5 and 18.

References

External links

Catherine Whitaker website

The Tennis Podcast
{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitaker, Catherine People educated at Kendrick School Living people 1986 births Alumni of the University of Nottingham BBC sports presenters and reporters English tennis commentators