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Pam Shriver (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 a
total of 22 Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam doubles
titles and captured a women's doubles Gold Medal
at the 1988 Olympic Games.

Shriver first came to prominence as a 16 year-old
amateur player in 1978, when she shocked the
tennis world by reaching the women's singles final
at the U.S. Open (tennis)|US Open. She stunned the
then reigning Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon
champion Martina Navratilova in the semi-finals,
beating her in straight sets 7-6, 7-6. She then
lost to Chris Evert in the final 7-5, 6-4. Shriver
also won the first of 21 career singles titles in
1978 at Columbus, Ohio.

The 1978 US Open final was to be the only Grand
Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam singles final of
Shriver's career. Her most notable successes in
future years came in doubles play. She won a total
112 career doubles titles – with 22 of them
coming at Grand Slam events.

Shriver and Navratilova formed one of the all time
great women's doubles teams, capturing 7
Australian Open, 5 French Open, 5 Wimbledon and 4
US Open titles. In 1984, the pair captured all
four of the Grand Slam women's doubles titles.
This was part of a record 109-match winning streak
they achieved between 1983 and 1985. The pair were
named the Women's Tennis Association|WTA Tour's
'Doubles Team of the Year' 9 consecutive times
from 1981-1989, and won the WTA Tour Championships
title 10 times between 1981 and 1992.

Shriver also won one further women's doubles Grand
Slam title at the US Open in 1991, partnering
Natasha Zvereva. And she was the 1987 French Open
mixed doubles champion with Emilio Sanchez. In
1988, Shriver won a women's doubles Gold Medal at
the Olympic Games in Seoul, partnering Zina
Garrison. She swept all three Gold Medals (women's
singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles) at the
1991 Pan American Games in Havana.

Shriver reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in
1985. Throughout the 1980s, she was ranked among
the World's Top 10 in women's singles, peaking at
World No. 3.

In total, Shriver won 133 top-level titles – 21
in singles and 112 in doubles. She is one of only
5 woman players in the Tennis Open Era|Open Era to
win more than 100 career titles.

Shriver retired from competitive play in 1994 but
has since maintained a presence on the
professional tour, mentoring Venus Williams for a
while and providing television commentary for
American Broadcasting Company|ABC, CBS and ESPN in
the United States, the BBC in the United Kingdom,
and 7 Sport in Australia. 

Shriver was elected to serve as President of WTA
Tour Players Association from 1991-94. She has
also 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. 

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, James, in 2004. In
June 2005, Shriver announced that she was due to
give birth to twins in November.

Shriver is a graduate of McDonogh School in Owings
Mills, Maryland.

==External links==

*wta|id=190061|name=Pam Shriver
*http://www.tennisfame.com/enshrinees/PamShriver.h
tml International Tennis Hall of Fame profile
*http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakerbio/Pam
_Shriver.php Shriver bio at
AllAmericanSpeakers.com