Ines Sainz Gallo (born in 1978) is a Mexican journalist for TV Azteca, hosting the sports interview program DxTips. Sainz and the company of her husband created the program production.
Sainz graduated with a law degree from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico in Queretaro and a masters in tax law from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Her father was likewise a lawyer. In addition, Sainz obtained a graduate degree in sports business administration. Moving from modeling to television sports reporting.
Sainz married Mexican television producer Hector Perez Rojano and they have three children, María Ines, Eduardo and Hector. Sainz is still an active participant herself in such sports as soccer, swimming, volleyball, basketball and tennis.
As one of the most experienced Mexico's sports journalists, Sainz has interviewed, among others, tennis players Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, basketball players Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, baseball players Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez and association football players Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, Zinedine Zidane, and Lionel Messi.
In July 2006, Sainz had covered three Champions League tournaments and four NBA Finals, the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2006 World Cup. In 2009, Sainz had covered six Super Bowls, the first, Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002.
According to the Palm Beach Post, at the 2007 Super Bowl's "media day," Sainz was photographed as often as Peyton Manning; and according to The Daily Telegraph, she was "besides Manning, the single-most popular person in premises. "During a period when Terrell Owens was not speaking with the press in 2008, Only Sainz was able to gain an exclusive interview with the wide receiver.
According to the Palm Beach Post, at the 2007 Super Bowl's "media day," Sainz was photographed as often as Peyton Manning; and according to The Daily Telegraph, she was "besides Manning, the single-most popular person in premises. "During a period when Terrell Owens was not speaking with the press in 2008, Only Sainz was able to gain an exclusive interview with the wide receiver.
In January 2009, the promotion of football stars for a Mexican audience, Sainz ran an informal bicep competition during the Super Bowl XLIII "media day" awarding her "Strongest Right Arm" award to the Arizona Cardinals' defensive end Antonio Smith.
In 2010, media reported that while Sainz was waiting to conduct an interview with Mark Sanchez in locker room of the New York Jets, team members made "catcalls and rude comments". According to Sainz, it was "the rest of the media start to hear the different kind of things that I didn't hear."
In 2010, media reported that while Sainz was waiting to conduct an interview with Mark Sanchez in locker room of the New York Jets, team members made "catcalls and rude comments". According to Sainz, it was "the rest of the media start to hear the different kind of things that I didn't hear."
In 2010, TV Azteca's website's featured photo galleries of her and an article in its "Bad Girls" section extolling her as a woman of intelligence and humor, illustrated by a photo of her modeling a swimsuit. Likewise, during the 2000s, Sainz appeared on the cover of such Spanish magazines as Revista Gente y la Actualidad, H Para Hombres, Maxim, and Esquire Mexico. Prior and during the 2010 World Cup, Sainz photos appeared in places like Bleacher Report and Web sites operated by Sports Illustrated and Men's Health.
Sainz was chosen by FHM magazine as the fifth sexiest woman sports reporter in the world in August 2009. The immediate aftermath of a 2010 media incident in New Jersey resulted in her losing the contract to be the spokesperson for a Mexican bank, which Sainz said was "very painful" for her. However, she said that the publicity resulting from the event also led her to become "the most popular journalist right now in Mexico and Latin America."
Boxing promotion company Top Rank hired Sainz to conduct pre-event reports and interviews and offer ringside commentary for the Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito World Super Welterweight Championship fight in Arlington, Texas on November 13, 2010.
