Pam Shriver
Country (sports) | United States |
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Residence | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Turned pro | 1979 |
Retired | 1997 |
Plays | Right-handed |
Prize money | US$5,460,566 |
Int. Tennis HoF | 2002 (member page) |
Singles | |
Career record | 625–270 |
Career titles | 21 |
Highest ranking | 3 (February 20, 1984) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | SF (1981, 1982, 1983) |
French Open | 3r (1983) |
Wimbledon | SF (1981, 1987, 1988) |
US Open | F (1978) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 622–122 |
Career titles | 112 |
Highest ranking | 1 (October 21, 1985) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | W (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989) |
French Open | W (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988) |
Wimbledon | W(1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986) |
US Open | W (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991) |
Last updated on: March 30, 2009. |
Medal record | ||
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Representing United States | ||
Women's Tennis | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1988 Seoul | Doubles | |
Pan American Games | ||
1991 Havana | Singles | |
1991 Havana | Mixed Doubles |
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby (born July 4, 1962, in Baltimore, Maryland), is a former professional tennis player and current sports broadcaster from the United States. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and 1 mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments. She also won a women's doubles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, partnering Zina Garrison, although her usual doubles partner was Martina Navratilova.
Career
Shriver first came to prominence at the 1978 US Open where, as a 16-year-old amateur, she reached the women's singles final. She defeated the reigning Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova in a semifinal 7–6, 7–6. Shriver then lost to Chris Evert in the final 7–5, 6–4. Shriver also won the first of her 21 career singles titles in 1978 at Columbus, Ohio.
The 1978 US Open final was the only Grand Slam singles final of Shriver's career. She lost the next eight Grand Slam singles semifinals she played, four of them to Navratilova, two to Steffi Graf, and one each to Evert and Hana Mandlikova.
Doubles
Shriver's most notable successes after 1978 came in doubles with Martina Navratilova, with credit given to her coach, Hank Harris, who was captain of the University of Virginia team. They subsequently won 79 women's doubles titles.[1] Shriver won 112 career doubles titles overall[1] and is one of only six female players in the open era to have won more than 100 career titles.[2]
Navratilova and Shriver formed one of the all-time great women's doubles teams, capturing seven Australian Open, five Wimbledon, five US Open and four French Open titles. In 1984, the pair captured all four Grand Slam women's doubles titles. This was part of a record 109-match winning streak between 1983 and 1985. The pair were named the WTA Tour's "Doubles Team of the Year" eight consecutive times from 1981 through 1988 and won the WTA Tour Championships title ten times between 1981 and 1992.
Shriver won another women's doubles Grand Slam title at the US Open in 1991, partnering with Natasha Zvereva. She was also the 1987 French Open mixed doubles title with Emilio Sánchez. She swept all three gold medals (singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles) at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba.
Shriver reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1985 and held it briefly before relinquishing it again to her partner, Navratilova.
Retirement
Shriver retired from competitive play in 1996 but has since maintained a presence on the professional tour, mentoring Venus Williams for a while and providing television commentary for ABC, CBS, and ESPN in the United States, the BBC in the United Kingdom, and Seven Network Sport in Australia.
Distinctions and honors
- Throughout the 1980s, she was ranked among the World's Top 10 in women's singles, peaking at World No. 3.
- Shriver was elected to serve as president of the WTA Tour Players Association from 1991–94.
- Shriver has served as president of the USA Tennis Foundation and on the board of directors of the United States Tennis Association.
- Shriver was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002.
Personal life
Shriver's first husband, Joe Shapiro, a former Walt Disney company lawyer, died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1999.
In 2002, Shriver married actor George Lazenby. She gave birth to their first child, George, Jr., on July 12, 2004, and to twins, Kate and Sam, on October 1, 2005. Shriver was also stepmother to Lazenby's daughter, Melanie Lazenby, from his previous marriage. The family lived in Brentwood, California. In August 2008, Shriver filed for divorce from Lazenby, citing "irreconcilable differences" for the end of the couple's six-year marriage.[3]
Shriver is a graduate of McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland. She is a minority owner of the Baltimore Orioles and is active in various charitable organizations.
Shriver is the fourth cousin of Maria Shriver,[4] the First Lady of California. Pam has two sisters, Marion who died from cancer in 1997 and Eleanor who lives in Maryland.
Major finals
Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (0-1)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent in final | Score in final |
Runner-up | 1978 | US Open | Hard | Chris Evert | 7–5, 6–4 |
Doubles: 25 (21-4)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents in final | Score in final |
Winner | 1981 | Wimbledon | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Kathy Jordan Anne Smith |
6–3, 7–6 |
Winner | 1982 | Wimbledon (2) | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Kathy Jordan Anne Smith |
6–4, 6–1 |
Winner | 1982 | Australian Open | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Eva Pfaff |
6–4, 6–2 |
Winner | 1983 | Wimbledon (3) | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Rosemary Casals Wendy Turnbull |
6–2, 6–2 |
Winner | 1983 | US Open | Hard | Martina Navratilova | Rosalyn Fairbank Candy Reynolds |
6–7, 6–1, 6–3 |
Winner | 1983 | Australian Open (2) | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Anne Hobbs Wendy Turnbull |
6–4, 6–7, 6–2 |
Winner | 1984 | French Open | Clay | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Hana Mandlíková |
5–7, 6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 1984 | Wimbledon (4) | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Kathy Jordan Anne Smith |
6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1984 | US Open (2) | Hard | Martina Navratilova | Anne Hobbs Wendy Turnball |
6–2, 6–4 |
Winner | 1984 | Australian Open (3) | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková |
6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1985 | French Open (2) | Clay | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Eva Pfaff |
4–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 1985 | Wimbledon | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Kathy Jordan Elizabeth Smylie |
5–7, 6–3, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 1985 | US Open | Hard | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková |
6–7(5), 6–2, 6–3 |
Winner | 1985 | Australian Open (4) | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková |
6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1986 | Wimbledon (5) | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Hana Mandlíková Wendy Turnbull |
6–1, 6–3 |
Winner | 1986 | US Open (3) | Hard | Martina Navratilova | Hana Mandlíková Wendy Turnbull |
5–7, 6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 1987 | Australian Open (5) | Grass | Martina Navratilova | Zina Garrison Lori McNeil |
6–1, 6–0 |
Winner | 1987 | French Open (3) | Clay | Martina Navratilova | Steffi Graf Gabriela Sabatini |
6–2, 6–1 |
Winner | 1987 | US Open (4) | Hard | Martina Navratilova | Kathy Jordan Elizabeth Smylie |
5–7, 6–4, 6–2 |
Winner | 1988 | Australian Open (6) | Hard | Martina Navratilova | Chris Evert Wendy Turnball |
6–0, 7–5 |
Winner | 1988 | French Open (4) | Clay | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková |
6–2, 7–5 |
Winner | 1989 | Australian Open (7) | Hard | Martina Navratilova | Patty Fendick Jill Hetherington |
3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 1989 | US Open (2) | Hard | Mary Joe Fernandez | Hana Mandlíková Martina Navratilova |
5–7, 6–4, 6–4 |
Winner | 1991 | US Open (5) | Hard | Natasha Zvereva | Jana Novotná Larisa Savchenko |
6–4, 4–6, 7–6(5) |
Runner-up | 1993 | Australian Open | Hard | Elizabeth Smylie | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva |
6–4, 6–3 |
Mixed doubles: 1 (1-0)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents in final | Score in final |
Winner | 1987 | French Open | Clay | Emilio Sánchez | Lori McNeil Sherwood Stewart |
6–3, 7–6(4) |
WTA Championships
Doubles: 10 Finals (10 Titles, 0 Runner-ups)
Outcome | Year | Location | Partner | Opponent(s) in the final | Score in the final |
Winner | 1981 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Barbara Potter Sharon Walsh |
6–0, 7–6(6) |
Winner | 1982 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Kathy Jordan Anne Smith |
6–4, 6–3 |
Winner | 1983 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Eva Pfaff |
7–5, 6–2 |
Winner | 1984 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Jo Durie Ann Kiyomura |
6–3, 6–1 |
Winner | 1985 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková |
6–7(4), 6–4, 7–6(5) |
Winner | 1986 (Nov) | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková |
1–6, 6–1, 6–1 |
Winner | 1987 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková |
6–1, 6–1 |
Winner | 1988 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Larisa Savchenko Neiland Natalia Zvereva |
6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1989 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Larisa Savchenko Neiland Natalia Zvereva |
6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 1991 | New York City | Martina Navratilova | Gigi Fernández Jana Novotná |
4–6, 7–5, 6–4 |
Titles
Singles (21)
Legend (Singles) |
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Tier III (1) |
Tier IV & V (3) |
VS(17) |
No. | Date | Tournament Name | Location | Surface | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
1. | January 23, 1978 | Futures of Columbus | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. | Carpet (I) | Kate Latham | 6–1, 6–3 |
2. | March 23, 1980 | Honda Civic Classic | Carlsbad, California, U.S. | Hard (I) | Kate Latham | 6–1, 6–2 |
3. | November 22, 1981 | National Panasonic Open | Perth, Australia | Grass | Andrea Jaeger | 6–1, 7–6(4) |
4. | May 1, 1983 | Virginia Slims of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | Hard | Kathy Jordan | 6–2, 6–0 |
5. | November 20, 1983 | National Panasonic (1) | Brisbane, Australia | Grass | Wendy Turnbull | 6–4, 7–5 |
6. | February 12, 1984 | Virginia Slims of Chicago | Chicago | Carpet (I) | Barbara Potter | 6–3, 6–4 |
7. | June 17, 1984 | Edgbaston Cup (1) | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | Anne White | 7–6(2), 6–3 |
8. | May 13, 1985 | Australian Indoors | Sydney, Australia | Hard (I) | Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat | 6–3, 6–3 |
9. | May 20, 1985 | Melbourne Indoors | Melbourne, Australia | Carpet (I) | Kathy Jordan | 6–4, 6–1 |
10. | June 16, 1985 | Edgbaston Cup (2) | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | Betsy Nagelsen McCormack | 6–1, 6–0 |
11. | October 20, 1985 | Porsche Classic | Filderstadt, Germany | Carpet (I) | Catarina Lindqvist | 6–1, 7–5 |
12. | June 15, 1986 | Edgbaston Cup (3) | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | Manuela Maleeva Fragniere | 6–2, 7–6(0) |
13. | July 20, 1986 | Virginia Slims of Newport (1) | Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. | Grass | Lori McNeil | 6–4, 6–2 |
14. | June 14, 1987 | Dow Chemical Classic (4) | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | Larisa Savchenko Neiland | 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
15. | July 19, 1987 | Virginia Slims of Newport (2) | Newport, Rhode Island | Grass | Wendy White Prausa | 6–2, 6–4 |
16. | August 23, 1987 | Canadian Open | Toronto, Canada | Hard | Zina Garrison Jackson | 6–4, 6–1 |
17. | November 8, 1987 | Virginia Slims of New England | Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. | Carpet (I) | Chris Evert | 6–4, 4–6, 6–0 |
18. | January 3, 1988 | Ariadne Classic (2) | Brisbane, Australia | Grass | Jana Novotná | 7–6(6), 7–6(4) |
19. | January 10, 1988 | New South Wales Open | Sydney, Australia | Grass | Helena Suková | 6–2, 6–3 |
20. | May 1, 1988 | Pan Pacific Open | Tokyo | Carpet (I) | Helena Suková | 7–5, 6–1 |
21. | October 23, 1988 | European Indoors | Zürich, Switzerland | Carpet (I) | Manuela Maleeva Fragniere | 6–3, 6–4 |
Women's doubles (111)
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Tournament | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | Career SR |
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Australian Open | A | A | QF | SF | SF | SF | QF | 3R | NH | QF | 4R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1R | A | 0 / 16 |
French Open | A | A | A | A | A | 3R | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 2 |
Wimbledon | 3R | 2R | 4R | SF | 4R | 2R | QF | QF | 1R | SF | SF | 3R | A | 3R | 2R | A | 3R | 1R | 2R | A | 0 / 17 |
US Open | F | 1R | QF | 4R | SF | SF | QF | QF | QF | QF | 2R | 1R | A | 3R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | A | 0 / 18 |
SR | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 1 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 53 |
NH = tournament not held.
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
Women's doubles
Tournament | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | Career SR |
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Australian Open | A | A | A | F | W | W | W | W | NH | W | W | W | 1R | 2R | SF | F | SF | 2R | 1R | 1R | 7 / 16 |
French Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | W | W | A | W | W | A | A | A | A | 2R | 1R | A | A | A | 4 / 6 |
Wimbledon | A | A | A | W | W | W | W | F | W | QF | 3R | SF | A | SF | SF | SF | QF | QF | 3R | 1R | 5 / 16 |
US Open | A | A | F | A | SF | W | W | F | W | W | SF | F | A | W | SF | 3R | 3R | QF | 1R | A | 5 / 15 |
SR | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 | 1 / 2 | 2 / 3 | 3 / 3 | 4 / 4 | 2 / 4 | 2 / 2 | 3 / 4 | 2 / 4 | 1 / 3 | 0 / 1 | 1 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | 21 / 53 |
NH = tournament not held.
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
References
External links
- Pam Shriver at the Women's Tennis Association
- Pam Shriver profile at International Tennis Hall of Fame
- {{ITF profile}} template using deprecated numeric ID.
- Pam Shriver at the Billie Jean King Cup
- Shriver bio at AllAmericanSpeakers.com
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- Living people
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- People from Baltimore, Maryland
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- Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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