Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian former professional tennis player, coach and television commentator. She was ranked number 1 in the world in doubles, and the winner of 4 major doubles titles and 2 mixed doubles titles as well as 66 WTA doubles titles. She is the host of "The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast". She worked at the Seven Network between 2011 and 2018 as an analyst and is now a full time commentator for ESPN tennis. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. In January 2019, Stubbs received the OLY post-nominal title at the Brisbane International tournament. She is also the longest-serving member of the Australian BJK Cup team.
Playing career
Stubbs reached a singles ranking of number 64, her highest, on the WTA Tour. It was in doubles, however, that she was particularly outstanding, winning four major doubles titles and two mixed-doubles titles. She was ranked world number 1 in doubles in 2000. She represented Australia at four successive Summer Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996; Sydney 2000; Athens 2004; and Beijing 2008.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.
Stubbs is the longest-serving member of the Australia Fed Cup team, having played for 17 years since 1992, with a 28–9 win–loss record in doubles; the second highest in Australian Fed Cup Team history behind Wendy Turnbull. She retired from Fed Cup play after the 2011 Fed Cup tie with Italy. Stubbs played on the WTA Tour for the rest of 2011 mostly with Casey Dellacqua and played her last tour match at the 2011 US Open with Dellacqua. She then finished her career winning the World TeamTennis title for the third time with the Washington Kastles, her fifth overall WTT title.
Broadcasting
Stubbs transitioned from her playing days immediately into a successful television career as a commentator and host for TV Networks including, ESPN, Tennis Channel and Channel Seven Australia and as the host of her own sports show, The Power Hour on Amazon in 2024. She also worked as the lead female analyst at the 2012 London the 2016 Rio and the 2020 Tokyo and the Paris Olympics for NBC. She is currently hosting the podcast "The French Connection" with Sam Querrey for NBC Sports and Racquet.In 2022, Embassy Row announced that Stubbs would host The Power Hour on Amazon Prime Video. On November 14, 2022, Stubbs made her debut on The Power Hour.
Coaching
From August 2018 until spring 2019, Stubbs was coach of Karolína Plíšková. Stubbs subsequently was added to the coaching team of Samantha Stosur. Originally, she was only expected to finish out the 2019 season with Stosur, however, given Stosur's success at the end of 2019, the pair decided to continue on in 2020, starting in Australia. With Stubbs as her coach, Stosur won one major title, the 2021 US Open doubles, with playing partner Zhang Shuai. Stubbs also coached Genie Bouchard throughout 2020 where Bouchard improved her ranking from 330 to 120 on the WTA rankings.For the 2022 US Open, Stubbs was the coach for Serena Williams as she contested her final major tournament. Williams lost in the third round.
Grand Slam tournament finals
Doubles: 7 (4–3)
Mixed doubles: 3 (2–1)
WTA career finals
Doubles: 103 (60–43)
| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | |||||||||||
| Win | 1. | 9 February 1992 | Asian Open Osaka, Japan | Carpet |  ITF Circuit finalsSingles: 3 (2–1)
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