{"id":391899,"date":"2026-01-06T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391899\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:15:07","slug":"espns-malika-andrews-adds-tennis-to-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391899\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN’s Malika Andrews Adds Tennis to Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMalika Andrews<\/a> will soon start bouncing between two different sports.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 30-year-old ESPN<\/a> host will begin leading ESPN\u2019s broadcasts at the Australian Open. Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, a move that will see her toggling from NBA coverage to tennis over the course of a year at the Disney-backed sports outlet. Her tennis coverage will commence later in January, in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

\n\tAndrews, who hosts \u201cNBA Today,\u201d \u201cNBA Countdown\u201d and \u201cWNBA Countdown\u201d along with ESPN\u2019s coverage of the NBA Draft, signed a new contract with the unit in the fall. She is expected to work to broaden her portfolio \u2014 something other sports personalities are also doing. At NBC Sports, for example, both Mike Tirico and Maria Taylor play prominent roles in NFL and NBA coverage. At CBS, Jim Nantz is known for his NFL commentary as well as his coverage of the Masters. For a long while, he also supplied the main voice for CBS\u2019 coverage of the NCAA March Madness tournament.<\/p>\n

\n\t.Andrews made her debut as a sideline reporter at ESPN during the 2019-20 season. In 2021, at 26, she became the youngest sports broadcaster to host the NBA Finals Trophy Ceremony. She made history in 2022 as the first woman to host the NBA Draft. She has also appeared on \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d a staple of Disney\u2019s ABC broadcast network. <\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to joining ESPN in October 2018, Andrews worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and sits on the NABJ Sports TaskForce Scholarship Committee. Her younger sister, Kendra Andrews, covers the WNBA for ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malika Andrews will soon start bouncing between two different sports. The 30-year-old ESPN host will begin leading ESPN\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[352,160903,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-391899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-espn","9":"tag-malika-andrews","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}