***Special*** Update on the Australian Open on this edition of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe

Anne Worcester became the first woman to be named the CEO of the WTA in 1994, making her the first female CEO of any major sports organization at the time. She then became the tournament director of the WTA Premier in New Haven in 1998, and remained the lead of the much-loved August event until it was sold to China earlier this year. She was named the president of UTR (Universal Tennis Rating). 

Rob Sitch  is an Australian director, producer, screenwriter, actor and comedian.

Sitch is currently a member of the Working Dog production company which have produced the television shows Frontline, A River Somewhere, The Panel, Thank God You're Here and Utopia and the feature films The Castle, The Dish and Any Questions for Ben?. Sitch co-wrote and directed each of these films.

In 2006, to mark 50 years of television in Australia, the Nine Network special 50 Years 50 Stars listed Sitch at the 39th greatest living television star in Australia. Several of his programs, including The D-Generation and Frontline, were included in the earlier special, 50 Years 50 Shows, coming in at 50 and 22 respectively.

Sitch is also a co-author of the satirical Jetlag travel guides to Molvanîa, Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.

Tennis Coach Marc Lucero sets the stage on what is actually going on at the Australian Open on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe

Coaching Career Highlights:
• NCAA Singles Champion – Nicole Gibbs
• 50k Denver ITF Champion – Nicole Gibbs
• Helped Shelby Rogers reached a career-high ranking of No.48 in the World in January 2017
• 2016 Roland Garros Quarterfinalist – Shelby Rogers
• 2016 Rio de Janeiro Runner-Up – Shelby Rogers
• 2015 Bogota Doubles Runner-Up – Shelby Rogers
• Voted 2017 Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Touring Coach of the Year

Marc earned his Bachelor of Science Degree as a part of the CSOM Honors Program in Economics from Boston College in 2002. Serves as the founder of RAMP Tennis, a tennis training program for junior players. Co-founder of First 1 Break, a 501 c3 non-profit tennis academy for all levels and age groups in Los Angeles. Hobbies include surfing, yoga and reading books. Attended one year of law school before coming to his senses. 

Alessandro Nivola is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for many awards including a Tony Award and an Independent Spirit Awardand has won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a British Independent Film Award (BIFA), and the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival among others.

He has starred in Hollywood blockbusters such as Face/Off, Jurassic Park III and the upcoming The Sopranos feature film prequel The Many Saints of Newark, as well as in critically acclaimed independent films, among them Disobedience, A Most Violent Year, Junebug and Laurel Canyon. He has also starred three times on Broadway, most recently opposite Bradley Cooper in the 2014 revival of The Elephant Man which earned him a Tony Award nomination.

Rennae Stubbs is an Australian retired tennis player, coach and commentator. She worked at the Seven Network between 2011 and 2018 as an analyst for women's matches and is now a full time commentator for ESPN tennis and the host of her own podcast, www.racquetmag.com The Racquet Magazine podcast. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She has won four Grand Slam doubles titles and two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She was ranked world No.1 in doubles in 2000. She represented Australia at four successive Summer Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008.

Rennae Stubbs at the 2010 US Open

Stubbs has recorded more doubles triumphs than any other Australian woman—60 from 1992 to the conclusion of the 2010 WTA Tour—enjoying success with eleven different partners. In 2001, Stubbs won the season-ending WTA Championships with regular partner Lisa Raymond and the pair were named ITF World Champions.

Rick Santorum was an American politician, attorney and political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a US Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 and was the Senate's third-ranking Republican from 2001 to 2007. Santorum ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, finishing second to Mitt Romney. In January 2017, he became a CNN senior political commentator.

Tim Siegel is a former professional tennis player and collegiate tennis coach. Siegel is currently the head coach of the Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District High School tennis team and previously served as head coach of the SMU Mustangs women's tennis team, Texas Tech Red Raiders men's tennis team and Texas Tech Red Raiders women's tennis team. 

Following his time playing for the Razorbacks, Siegel went on to play professionally. With teammate Jimmy Arias, he reached a top 100 world ranking in doubles, the quarterfinals at the U.S. Clay Court Championships, and semifinals in Brisbane, Bologna and Florence. Siegel also reached the third round of doubles at the US Open, Australian Open and the second round of Wimbledon. 

Donald Dell is an American sports attorney, writer, commentator, and former tennis player. Dell was the first sports agent in professional tennis, and represented Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Jimmy Connors, and Ivan Lendl during the golden age of pro tennis (1975 to 1985). He was also the founder of Professional Services (ProServ), one of the nation's first sports marketing firms established in 1970.

Dell is considered one of the fathers of sports marketing and the sports agent business along with IMG's Mark McCormack. Dell co-founded the Association of Tennis Professionals(ATP) in 1972 with Jack Kramer and Cliff Drysdale.

He played on the United States Davis Cup team in 1961 and 1963 and was the captain of the winning Cup teams of 1968 and 1969, both undefeated.

2020 Favorite Podcast Moments on this Special Episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe