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Biography
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, BBC Radio 5 Live, BeIn Sports, Perform and IMG Media. She is also co-presenter of The Tennis Podcast, a downloadable tennis radio show launched in 2012.
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 reporter for Eurosport at the US Open, Australian Open and French Open tennis tournaments. She presents live coverage from the tournaments and interviews players.
Since May 2012, she has co-presented The Tennis Podcast, a weekly downloadable radio show, with daily editions at the Grand Slam tennis tournaments. Her co-presenter is BBC tennis commentator David Law.
At Wimbledon, she reports and commentates for BBC Radio 5 Live.
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.
She is also involved in Eurosport’s Winter Sports coverage as a commentator for their figure skating programming, having trained as a figure skater between the ages of 5 and 18. In 2018, she will be an on-site reporter at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang for Eurosport.