Pam Shriver

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Pam Shriver

Country	United States
Residence	Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Date of birth	July 4, 1962 (1962-07-04) (age 45)
Place of birth	Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	72.5 kg (160 lb/11.42 st)
Turned pro	1979
Retired	1997
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	US$5,460,566
Singles
Career record:	625–270
Career titles:	21
Highest ranking:	3 (February 20, 1984)
Grand Slam 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)
Infobox last updated on: May 27, 2008.

Medal record
Competitor for  United States
Women's Tennis
Olympic Games
Gold	1988 Seoul	Doubles
Pan American Games
Gold	1991 Havana	Singles
Gold	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 with Zina Garrison.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Doubles 1.2 Retirement 2 Distinctions and honors 3 Personal life 4 Grand Slam singles final (1) 4.1 Runner-up (1) 5 Grand Slam women's doubles finals (25) 5.1 Wins (21) 5.2 Runner-ups (4) 6 Grand Slam mixed doubles final (1) 6.1 Win (1) 7 WTA Tour finals 7.1 Singles 7.1.1 Wins (21) 8 Grand Slam singles performance timeline 9 References 10 External links

[edit] Career

Shriver first came to prominence at the 1978 US Open where, as an unseeded 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.

[edit] Doubles

Shriver's most notable successes after 1978 came in doubles with Martina Navratilova. They subsequently won 79 women's doubles titles.^[1] Shriver won 112 career doubles titles overall^[2] and is one of only six female players in the open era to have won more than 100 career titles.^[3]

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 Sanchez. 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.

[edit] 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 7 Sport in Australia.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 the former James Bond actor George Lazenby. She gave birth to their first child, George, Jr., on July 12, 2004. On October 1, 2005, Shriver gave birth to twins, Kate and Sam. She is also a stepmother to George's daughter, Melanie Lazenby, from his previous marriage. The family lives in Brentwood, California.

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.

[edit] Grand Slam singles final (1)

[edit] Runner-up (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1978	US Open	Chris Evert	7–5, 6–4

[edit] Grand Slam women's doubles finals (25)

[edit] Wins (21)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1982	Wimbledon	Martina Navratilova	Kathy Jordan Anne Smith	7-5, 6-1
1982	Australian Open	Martina Navratilova	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Eva Pfaff	6–4, 6-2
1983	Wimbledon (2)	Martina Navratilova	Rosemary Casals Wendy Turnbull	6-2, 6-2
1983	US Open	Martina Navratilova	Rosalyn Fairbank Candy Reynolds	6-7, 6-1, 6-3
1983	Australian Open (2)	Martina Navratilova	Anne Hobbs Wendy Turnbull	6-4, 6-7, 6-2
1984	French Open	Martina Navratilova	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Hana Mandlikova	5-7, 6–3, 6-2
1984	Wimbledon (3)	Martina Navratilova	Kathy Jordan Anne Smith	6-3, 6-4
1984	US Open (2)	Martina Navratilova	Anne Hobbs Wendy Turnball	6–2, 6–4
1984	Australian Open (3)	Martina Navratilova	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Sukova	6-3, 6-4
1985	French Open (2)	Martina Navratilova	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Eva Pfaff	4-6, 6–2, 6-2
1985	Wimbledon (4)	Martina Navratilova	Kathy Jordan Elizabeth Sayers Smylie	5-7, 6-3, 6-4
1985	Australian Open (4)	Martina Navratilova	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Sukova	6-3, 6-4
1986	Wimbledon (5)	Martina Navratilova	Hana Mandlikova Wendy Turnbull	6–1, 6-3
1986	US Open (3)	Martina Navratilova	Hana Mandlikova Wendy Turnbull	5-7, 6-3, 6-2
1987	Australian Open(5)	Martina Navratilova	Zina Garrison Jackson Lori McNeil	6-1, 6-0
1987	French Open (3)	Martina Navratilova	Steffi Graf Gabriela Sabatini	6-2, 6-1
1987	US Open (4)	Martina Navratilova	Kathy Jordan Elizabeth Sayers Smylie	5-7, 6–4, 6-2
1988	Australian Open (6)	Martina Navratilova	Chris Evert Wendy Turnball	6-0, 7-5
1988	French Open (4)	Martina Navratilova	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Sukova	6–2, 7-5
1989	Australian Open (7)	Martina Navratilova	Patty Fendick Jill Hetherington	3-6, 6-3, 6-2
1991	US Open (5)	Natasha Zvereva	Jana Novotna Larisa Savchenko Neiland	6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5)

[edit] Runner-ups (4)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1985	Wimbledon	Martina Navratilova	Kathy Jordan Elizabeth Sayers Smylie	5-7, 6-3, 6-4
1985	US Open	Martina Navratilova	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Sukova	6-7(5), 6-2, 6-3
1989	US Open (2)	Mary Joe Fernandez	Hana Mandlikova Martina Navratilova	5-7, 6–4, 6-4
1993	Australian Open	Elizabeth Sayers Smylie	Gigi Fernandez Natasha Zvereva	6-4, 6-3

[edit] Grand Slam mixed doubles final (1)

[edit] Win (1)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1987	French Open	Emilio Sanchez	Lori McNeil Sherwood Stewart	6-3, 7-6(4)

[edit] WTA Tour finals

[edit] Singles

[edit] Wins (21)

Legend (Singles)
Tier III (1)
Tier IV & V (3)
Pre-Tier wins (17)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	January 23, 1978	Columbus, Ohio, U.S.	Carpet (I)	Kate Latham	6-1, 6–3
2.	March 23, 1980	Carlsbad, California, U.S.	Hard (I)	Kate Katham	6–1, 6–2
3.	November 22, 1981	Perth, Australia	Grass	Andrea Jaeger	6–1, 7-6
4.	May 1, 1983	Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.	Hard	Kathy Jordan	6–2, 6-0
5.	November 20, 1983	Brisbane, Australia	Grass	Wendy Turnbull	6–4, 7-5
6.	February 12, 1984	Chicago	Carpet (I)	Barbara Potter	6-3, 6–4
7.	June 17, 1984	Birmingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Anne White	7–6(2), 6–3
8.	May 13, 1985	Sydney, Australia	Capet (I)	Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat	6–3, 6–3
9.	May 20, 1985	Melbourne, Australia	Grass	Kathy Jordan	6–4, 6-1
10.	June 16, 1985	Birmingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Betsy Nagelsen	6–1, 6–0
11.	October 20, 1985	Filderstadt, Germany	Capet (I)	Catarina Lindqvist	6–1, 7-5
12.	June 15, 1986	Birmingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Manuela Maleeva Fragniere	6–2, 7-6(0)
13.	July 20, 1986	Newport, Rhode Island	Grass	Lori McNeil	6–4, 6–2
14.	June 14, 1987	Birmingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Larisa Savchenko Neiland	4-6, 6-2, 6-2
15.	July 19, 1987	Newport, Rhode Island	Grass	Wendy White Prausa	6–2, 6-4
16.	August 23, 1987	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Zina Garrison Jackson	6–4, 6–1
17.	November 18, 1987	Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.	Carpet (I)	Chris Evert	6–4, 4-6, 6-0
18.	January 3, 1988	Brisbane, Australia	Grass	Jana Novotna	7-6(6), 7-6(4)
19.	January 10, 1988	Sydney, Australia	Grass	Helena Sukova	6–2, 6-3
20.	May 1, 1988	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet (I)	Helena Sukova	7-5, 6-1
21.	October 23, 1988	Zürich, Switzerland	Carpet (I)	Manuela Maleeva Fragniere	6–3, 6-4

[edit] Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	Career SR
Australian Open	A	A	QF	SF	SF	SF	QF	3R	NH	QF	4R	3R	3R	3R	3R	1R	2R	1R	1R	0 / 16
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	0 / 2
Wimbledon	3R	2R	4R	SF	4R	2R	QF	QF	1R	SF	SF	3R	A	3R	2R	A	3R	1R	2R	0 / 17
US Open	F	1R	QF	4R	SF	SF	QF	QF	QF	QF	2R	1R	A	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 / 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.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.tennisfame.com/famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=155 International Tennis Hall of Fame profile of Pam Shriver]
2. ^ http://www.tennisfame.com/famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=155 International Tennis Hall of Fame profile of Pam Shriver]
3. ^ National Speakers Bureau biography

[edit] External links

• Pam Shriver profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• International Tennis Hall of Fame profile
• Fed Cup record
• Shriver bio at AllAmericanSpeakers.com