Tennis love triangles and US Open preview with Catherine Whitaker
The Sports Gossip Show
The Athletic
4.8 • 738 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Catherine Whitaker is one of the co-hosts of The Tennis Podcast, another great show on The Athletic Podcast Network, and Madeline and Charlotte are thrilled to welcome her to the Sports Gossip Show ahead of this year’s US Open. The tennis tea has never been hotter!
The gals ask Catherine everything you all want to know about this year’s upcoming American Grand Slam. She talks about the length of the tennis season and whether anything can be done about it, Jannick Sinner’s doping ban, why Iga Świątek is no-drama, how Naomi Osaka is her own fiercest competition, and hook-up culture on the tour.
Things get juicy when Catherine tells the gals about the love triangle that tennis fans desperately want to believe in between Emma Raducanu, Carlos Alcaraz, and Jack Draper. She also dishes about a rumored love triangle from years ago involving Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova.
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| 0:00.0 | We are thrilled to welcome to the show Catherine Whitaker. |
| 0:14.0 | She's a prolific sports broadcaster, working across TV and radio, been a reporter and host for Amazon Prime Video UK, |
| 0:22.4 | Eurosport, BBC Sport and others. |
| 0:24.7 | She co-host the tennis podcast, which I've been a long time listener of, |
| 0:29.5 | and which recently joined the Athletic Podcast Network along with us. |
| 0:33.6 | So welcome to the show, Catherine. |
| 0:36.4 | Thank you so much for having me. I am super excited about this. I've been wanting an outlet for all of my gossipy thoughts for a long time. So I'm very pleased to be here. Listen, we're honored to be that safe space for you. This is a place to be. And we're going to break the fourth wall here. And I'm going to move my computer over. Oh. And for anyone watching on YouTube, we're going to be looking at my computer |
| 0:59.2 | because that's where Catherine is and we're in my apartment. So we're doing the best we can. Double |
| 1:03.8 | screens going on today. Catherine, you're in, you're in New York for the US Open, correct? |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, I arrived yesterday. |
| 1:11.5 | How's it been? |
| 1:15.7 | The 12 hours I've been here have been fantastic. |
| 1:18.0 | I love coming here so much. |
| 1:23.1 | I mean, we, the tennis podcast, the three of us, we travel to all four Grand Sam tournaments. And like, every time we're at any of them, we're like, this is our favorite. |
| 1:27.4 | So, yeah, right now I'm having're like this is our favorite yeah um so yeah right now |
| 1:28.7 | i'm having the u.s open is my favorite feelings um but honestly like i i i can't believe this is |
| 1:35.0 | my job that i get to come here every year like if you told if you told little me that i get to come |
| 1:39.8 | to new york every year and talk about tennis i'd have i'd have lost my tiny mind. So yeah, it's, |
| 1:45.3 | it's, it's, it's great to be here. We definitely feel that way talking about sports gossip. We're |
| 1:49.5 | like, how is this our job? We can talk about sports gossip twice a week. Yeah. Have you always |
| 1:54.4 | love tennis? Has that been your main passion? Yes. Yeah, I grew up in, I grew up in quite a Tennessee family, but actually it was like my brother was the tennis |
| 2:04.9 | player of the family and I kind of felt like that wasn't my thing. |
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