Kerryn Pratt (born 20 June 1959) is an Australian sports broadcaster and former professional
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player.
Trained at the
AIS, Pratt is the daughter of tennis player
Maureen McCalman and was a two-time
Australian Open
The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl ...
girls' doubles champion. She twice reached the women's singles second round at the Australian Open and was a women's doubles semi-finalist with
Elizabeth Little in 1979.
Pratt began her media career as a sports reporter for the
Seven Network
Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, ...
in the mid 1980s before joining Nine, where she reported on the
Wide World of Sports and was a producer on 60 Minutes in the 1990s. She has commentated on every
Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...
from Sydney to Rio de Janeiro, covering tennis, table tennis, badminton and softball.
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1959 births
Living people
Australian female tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
Australian Institute of Sport tennis players
Australian sports commentators
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Australian sportswomen