Pam Shriver
Country (sports) | United States |
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Residence | Los Angeles, United States |
Born | Baltimore, Maryland, United States | July 4, 1962
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 | No. 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 | No. 1 (March 18, 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 ![]() | ||
Women's Tennis | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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1988 Seoul | Doubles |
Pan American Games | ||
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1991 Havana | Singles |
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1991 Havana | Women's Doubles |
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1991 Havana | Mixed Doubles |
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby (born July 4, 1962), is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments. She also won a women's doubles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with Zina Garrison as her partner, 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 Mandlíková.
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 winner 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 was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Her 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 former First Lady of California. Pam has two sisters, Marion who died from cancer in 1997 and Eleanor who lives in Maryland.
During Wimbledon 2010, James Blake admonished Shriver for disrupting play due to her overly loud commentary from the box situated above the court behind him. This led to a verbal exchange between the two during the match.[5]
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 | ![]() |
7–5, 6–4 |
Doubles: 25 (21–4)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents in final | Score in final |
Winner | 1981 | Wimbledon | Grass | ![]() |
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6–3, 7–6 |
Winner | 1982 | Wimbledon (2) | Grass | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–1 |
Winner | 1982 | Australian Open | Grass | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–2 |
Winner | 1983 | Wimbledon (3) | Grass | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–2 |
Winner | 1983 | US Open | Hard | ![]() |
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6–7, 6–1, 6–3 |
Winner | 1983 | Australian Open (2) | Grass | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–7, 6–2 |
Winner | 1984 | French Open | Clay | ![]() |
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5–7, 6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 1984 | Wimbledon (4) | Grass | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1984 | US Open (2) | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–4 |
Winner | 1984 | Australian Open (3) | Grass | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1985 | French Open (2) | Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 1985 | Wimbledon | Grass | ![]() |
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5–7, 6–3, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 1985 | US Open | Hard | ![]() |
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6–7(5), 6–2, 6–3 |
Winner | 1985 | Australian Open (4) | Grass | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1986 | Wimbledon (5) | Grass | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–3 |
Winner | 1986 | US Open (3) | Hard | ![]() |
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5–7, 6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 1987 | Australian Open (5) | Grass | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–0 |
Winner | 1987 | French Open (3) | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–1 |
Winner | 1987 | US Open (4) | Hard | ![]() |
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5–7, 6–4, 6–2 |
Winner | 1988 | Australian Open (6) | Hard | ![]() |
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6–0, 7–5 |
Winner | 1988 | French Open (4) | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 7–5 |
Winner | 1989 | Australian Open (7) | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 1989 | US Open (2) | Hard | ![]() |
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5–7, 6–4, 6–4 |
Winner | 1991 | US Open (5) | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 4–6, 7–6(5) |
Runner-up | 1993 | Australian Open | Hard | ![]() |
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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 | ![]() |
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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 | ![]() |
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6–0, 7–6(6) |
Winner | 1982 | New York City | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–3 |
Winner | 1983 | New York City | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–2 |
Winner | 1984 | New York City | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–1 |
Winner | 1985 | New York City | ![]() |
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6–7(4), 6–4, 7–6(5) |
Winner | 1986 (Nov) | New York City | ![]() |
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1–6, 6–1, 6–1 |
Winner | 1987 | New York City | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–1 |
Winner | 1988 | New York City | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 1989 | New York City | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 1991 | New York City | ![]() |
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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) | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 |
2. | March 23, 1980 | Honda Civic Classic | Carlsbad, California, U.S. | Hard (I) | ![]() |
6–1, 6–2 |
3. | November 22, 1981 | National Panasonic Open | Perth, Australia | Grass | ![]() |
6–1, 7–6(4) |
4. | April 25, 1983 | Virginia Slims of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | Hard | ![]() |
6–2, 6–0 |
5. | November 14, 1983 | National Panasonic (1) | Brisbane, Australia | Grass | ![]() |
6–4, 7–5 |
6. | February 12, 1984 | Virginia Slims of Chicago | Chicago | Carpet (I) | ![]() |
6–3, 6–4 |
7. | June 17, 1984 | Edgbaston Cup (1) | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
7–6(2), 6–3 |
8. | May 13, 1985 | Australian Indoors | Sydney | Hard (I) | ![]() |
6–3, 6–3 |
9. | May 20, 1985 | Melbourne Indoors | Melbourne, Australia | Carpet (I) | ![]() |
6–4, 6–1 |
10. | June 16, 1985 | Edgbaston Cup (2) | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
6–1, 6–0 |
11. | October 20, 1985 | Porsche Classic | Filderstadt, Germany | Carpet (I) | ![]() |
6–1, 7–5 |
12. | June 15, 1986 | Edgbaston Cup (3) | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
6–2, 7–6(0) |
13. | July 20, 1986 | Virginia Slims of Newport (1) | Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. | Grass | ![]() |
6–4, 6–2 |
14. | June 14, 1987 | Dow Chemical Classic (4) | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
4–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
15. | July 19, 1987 | Virginia Slims of Newport (2) | Newport, Rhode Island | Grass | ![]() |
6–2, 6–4 |
16. | August 23, 1987 | Canadian Open | Toronto, Canada | Hard | ![]() |
6–4, 6–1 |
17. | November 8, 1987 | Virginia Slims of New England | Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. | Carpet (I) | ![]() |
6–4, 4–6, 6–0 |
18. | January 3, 1988 | Ariadne Classic (2) | Brisbane, Australia | Grass | ![]() |
7–6(6), 7–6(4) |
19. | January 10, 1988 | New South Wales Open | Sydney, Australia | Grass | ![]() |
6–2, 6–3 |
20. | May 1, 1988 | Pan Pacific Open | Tokyo | Carpet (I) | ![]() |
7–5, 6–1 |
21. | October 23, 1988 | European Indoors | Zürich, Switzerland | Carpet (I) | ![]() |
6–3, 6–4 |
Women's doubles (111)
Legend (Women's doubles) |
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Tier I (1) |
Tier II (9) |
Tier III (3) |
Tier IV or V (4) |
Virginia Slims, Avon, Other (62) |
Grand Slam Title (21) |
WTA Tour Championship (10) |
Olympic Gold (1) |
Mixed doubles (1)
- 1987: French Open (Emilio Sanchez)
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 | QF | SF | SF | SF | QF | 3R | NH | QF | 4R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 16 | |||
French Open | 3R | 1R | 0 / 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 3R | 2R | 4R | SF | 4R | 2R | QF | QF | 1R | SF | SF | 3R | 3R | 2R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 0 / 17 | |||
US Open | F | 1R | QF | 4R | SF | SF | QF | QF | QF | QF | 2R | 1R | 3R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | 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.
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 DR |
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Australian Open | F | W | W | W | W | NH | W | W | W | 1R | 2R | SF | F | SF | 2R | 1R | 1R | 7 / 16 | |||
French Open | W | W | W | W | 2R | 1R | 4 / 6 | ||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | W | W | W | W | F | W | QF | 3R | SF | SF | SF | SF | QF | QF | 3R | 1R | 5 / 16 | ||||
US Open | F | SF | W | W | F | W | W | SF | F | W | SF | 3R | 3R | QF | 1R | 5 / 15 | |||||
DR | 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.
DR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam doubles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
References
- Notes
- ^ a b International Tennis Hall of Fame profile of Pam Shriver[dead link]
- ^ National Speakers Bureau biography
- ^ Pam Shriver files for divorce from George Lazenby[dead link]
- ^ "Topic Galleries". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
- ^ "James Blake curses Pam Shriver – during his Wimbledon match – Game On!: Covering the Latest Sports News". USA Today. June 22, 2010. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
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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