She developed an eating disorder and battled it for years, until she met a person who changed her life : her therapist. Photos courtesy of Prim Siripipat When Prim Siripipat retired from a sport that had defined a decade of her life, she felt like she’d lost her identity. Since girls mature faster, I remember I was bigger and stronger than he was at first! That obviously changed in time.Siripipat covering the US Open for IBM at the Live X Studio in Manhattan this year. “The three of us spent a lot of time together, on the court and off. “He was 12 at Saddlebrook and I was 13, by far the youngest kids there along with one other boy,” she remembers. One of those she enjoys catching up with is Roddick, who stunned her and the tennis world by retiring during last year’s US Open. Former teammates and coaches are there, either still playing or coaching or in the tennis industry in some fashion.” “I love the city – not that I have much time to enjoy it, and the event is a reunion of all my friends in the sport. “It’s also my favorite business trip,” she adds. the matches I call, the storylines in the afternoon and evening. “They are long days at the US Open, but it’s very enjoyable and rewarding,” she says, having first experienced this routine a year ago in New York and then this summer at Wimbledon. In March 2011, she arrived at ESPN, where her work ethic and background in competition have been put to good use.
In local markets, she advanced from producer to reporter to weekend anchor at the CBS affiliate in Miami. Combine that with the rigors of her chosen major (sociology with a minor in biological anthropology and anatomy), and Siripipat’s long-range plan turned away from the tennis court or medical school and to television. Her Blue Devils’ team was ranked in the top 10 and won the Indoor National Championship her senior year.īut injuries started taking a toll – she had surgeries on both shoulders and her left knee (“there’s a snap-crackle-pop in the morning!” she says as she rotates her shoulder). Siripipat chose Duke over Harvard and several other schools to continue her education while on a tennis scholarship. Eventually Siripipat was ranked among the top 10 in the country for players aged 18 and under. Public school in the morning was followed every day by hours on the practice court at the Saddlebrook Academy with the likes of Jennifer Capriati, Andy Roddick, Martina Hingis and Mardy Fish. To maximize her tennis potential, at 12 she and her mother moved to the Tampa, Fla., area while her father and older brother stayed behind. Not one to waste time, Siripipat would do homework or even practice the saxophone while en route. To find more competition, her mother would drive her an hour to Columbia, Mo. By the time Siripipat was 10, she could beat her coach, as well as high school girls (and some boys) 6-0, 6-0. Such schedules are nothing new for someone who by the age of four took up dance, piano, swimming and gymnastics, with ballet and tennis to follow by seven.įinding early success on the court, tennis grew to define her life. And that’s also her voice you hear sometimes co-hosting on ESPN Radio. She also can be seen on TV, providing news updates during SVP and Russillo on ESPNEWS and filling in on ESPN2’s First Take. We don’t replicate the story, we supplement and complement it.”
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“ wants video to accompany every story,” she says, “and if there isn’t anything – or anything yet – from the TV side, we fire up the studio and create something. Siripipat hosts a wide variety of video covering any and all sports: top stories, analysis pieces, recaps of the Sunday afternoon NFL games with Cris Carter or other ESPN NFL analysts, Fantasy Sports segments with Matthew Berry, “The Word” roundtable discussion on, and more, including reacting to breaking news. Actually, it’s been her way her entire life growing up in Mexico, Missouri, about a two-hour drive from St.
Need something done? She can do it.īut that’s OK because it’s what she’s used to in her daily life in Bristol, Conn. Analyst, reporter, host - no wonder she calls herself the “Swiss army knife” of ESPN’s tennis coverage. Oh, and she also tweets about it all ( These busy and varied days are par for the course at the US Open this week and next in New York for ESPN’s Prim Siripipat. Other segments preview the next day’s matches and she interviews players for video to accompany stories. Reacting to the news of the day, she files numerous reports, recapping the key matches and reviewing the top news of the day with an ESPN tennis analyst. By mid-afternoon – and well into the evening – she becomes an on-camera host for video segments. NEW YORK - By morning she is courtside, an analyst on US Open matches for ESPN’s iTV effort with ESPN2’s feed supplemented by action from five courts simultaneously on DirecTV.
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