International Tennis Hall of Fame member Pam Shriver has her trophies back, regaining the dozen or so pieces of hardware that were in a car stolen from the hotel where she was staying after evacuating from her home during the spread of devastating wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area.
The haul included her five trophies for winning the U.S. Open women's doubles event — in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987 and 1991 — plus a bowl she received from the U.S. Tennis Association after having been the singles runner-up in 1978 at age 16 as an amateur who, Shriver recalled, “got no money, no trophy, some flowers.”.
The car still has not been recovered, Shriver said, but the trophies were dropped off in boxes placed outside the hotel about 10 days later, and she finally got them back this week.
Shriver won 21 Grand Slam doubles championships — all but one alongside Martina Navratilova — a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a total of 111 doubles titles.
There was at least one other silver trophy from tennis, plus — Shriver related with a laugh — the reward she received for being honored as the most improved golfer at Brentwood Country Club in 2001.
