Kerryn Pratt (born 20 June 1959) is an Australian sports broadcaster and former professional
tennis player.
Trained at the
AIS, Pratt is the daughter of tennis player Maureen McCalman and was a two-time
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 ...
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 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 (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
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
20th-century Australian women
Place of birth missing (living people)