Pam Shriver | Player Stats & More

Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame's Class of 2002... Began playing tennis at age 3… Middle daughter of the late Sam and Margot Shriver; elder sister Marion succumbed to cancer in 1997; younger sister is Eleanor... Played on the varsity basketball team at McDonogh School, where she graduated in 1979 – the year after she reached the singles final of the US Open as a 16-year-old amateur (l. Evert)... Played with a revolutionary oversized Prince racquet... Book entitled Passing Shots was published in 1986... From 1986 to 2010, hosted an annual charity tennis event in her hometown raising $4 million for local causes including Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Baltimore Community Foundation… Member of ESPN’s tennis broadcast team since 1990… Active in a wide range of charities, including many in her native Baltimore, as well as her current residence of Los Angeles... Member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports from 1986-92... Served as president of the WTA Players Association (1991-94)... First elite player to join the USTA board of directors (1997-2003)... First USTA Foundation President from 2000-05 and remains an honorary board member... In 2015, helped fund and found First Break Academy, a multi-sport program for urban youth in Carson, California... Sits on WTA Charities board of directors and volunteers for ACEing Autism and Breakthrough T1D, a diabetes research charity... Minority owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team... Mother of three children with James Bond actor George Lazenby: George (born 2004) and twins Kaitlin and Sam (2005)... Joined coaching team of Croatia's Donna Vekic in 2022... Recipient of the WTA’s Georgina Clark Mother Award in 2024.

Plays

Right-Handed

Career High

Height

6'0" (1.83 m)

Birthday

Jul 4, 1962 July 4, 1962

Birthplace

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Career Highlights

SINGLES
Winner(21): 1988 - Brisbane, Sydney, Tokyo [Pan Pacific], European Indoors; 1987 - Canadian Open, New England, Newport, Birmingham; 1986 - Birmingham, Newport; 1985 - Sydney, Melbourne, Birmingham, Filderstadt; 1984 - Chicago, Birmingham; 1983 - Atlanta, Brisbane; 1981 - Perth; 1980 - Carlsbad; 1978 - Columbus.

DOUBLES
Winner (111): 1994 - Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (w/Smylie), US Hardcourts (w/Smylie); 1993 - Sydney (w/Smylie); 1992 - Chicago (w/Navratilova), US Hardcourts (w/Navratilova); 1991 - US Open (w/Zvereva), Virginia Slims Championships (w/Navratilova), Tokyo [Nichirei] (w/MJ Fernandez), Brighton (w/Zvereva); 1989 - Australian Open (w/Navratilova), Virginia Slims Championships (w/Navratilova), Indian Wells (w/Mandlikova), Washington, DC (w/Nagelson), New England (w/Navratilova), Sydney (w/Navratilova), US Hardcourts (w/K. Adams), Mahwah (w/Graf); 1988 - Australian Open (w/Navratilova), Roland Garros (w/Navratilova), Virginia Slims Championships (w/Navratilova), Washington, DC (w/Navratilova), New England (w/Navratilova), Brisbane (w/Nagelsen), Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (w/Sukova), Olympics (w/Garrison); 1987 - Australian Open (w/Navratilova), Roland Garros (w/Navratilova), US Open (w/Navratilova), Virginia Slims Championships (w/Navratilova), Miami (w/Navratilova), Washington, DC (w/Burgin), Los Angeles w/Navratilova), Filderstadt (w/Navratilova); 1986 - Wimbledon (w/Navratilova), US Open (w/Navratilova), Miami (w/Sukova), Virginia Slims Championships [Nov.] (w/Navratilova), Washington, DC (w/Navratilova), New England [March] (w/Navratilova), Bridgestone (w/Barb. Potter), Eastbourne (w/Navratilova), Los Angeles (w/Navratilova), Filderstadt (w/Navratilova), New England [Nov.] (w/Navratilova); 1985 - Australian Open (w/Navratilova), Roland Garros (w/Navratilova), Virginia Slims Championships [March] (w/Navratilova), US Indoors (w/Navratilova), Hilton Head (w/Fairbank), Orlando (w/Navratilova), Sydney (w/Smylie), Melbourne (w/Smylie), Eastbourne (w/Navratilova), Filderstadt (w/Mandlikova), Brisbane (w/Navratilova); 1984 - Australian Open (w/Navratilova), Roland Garros (w/Navratilova), Wimbledon (w/Navratilova), US Open (w/Navratilova), Virginia Slims Championships (w/Navratilova), Oakland (w/Navratilova), US Indoors (w/Navratilova), Bridgestone (w/Kiyomura), Eastbourne (w/Navratilova), Mahwah (w/Navratilova), New Orleans (w/Navratilova), Brisbane (w/Navratilova); 1983 - Australian Open (w/Navratilova), Wimbledon (w/Navratilova), US Open (w/Navratilova), Virginia Slims Championships (w/Navratilova), Washington, DC (w/Navratilova), Houston (w/Navratilova), Chicago (w/Navratilova), Dallas (w/Navratilova), Eastbourne (w/Navratilova), Newport (w/Barb. Potter), Los Angeles (w/Navratilova), Tampa (w/Navratilova), Brighton (w/Evert); 1982 - Australian Open (w/Navratilova), Wimbledon (w/Navratilova), Avon Circuit Championships (w/Navratilova), Toyota Circuit Championships (w/Navratilova), Chicago (w/Navratilova), Houston (w/K. Jordan), Dallas (w/Navratilova), Hilton Head (w/Navratilova), Bridgestone (w/Navratilova), Eastbourne (w/Navratilova), Stuttgart (w/Navratilova), Brighton (w/Navratilova), Sydney (w/Navratilova); 1981 - Wimbledon (w/Navratilova), Avon Circuit Championships (w/Navratilova), Toyota Circuit Championships (w/Navratilova), Chicago (w/Navratilova), Dallas (w/Navratilova), Orlando (w/Navratilova), Eastbourne (w/Navratilova), Canadian Open (w/Navratilova), US Indoors (w/Navratilova), Sydney (w/Navratilova); 1980 - Cincinnati (w/DuPont), Carlsbad (w/DuPont), Chichester (w/Stove), Canadian Open (w/A. Smith), Phoenix (w/P. Smith), Sydney (w/Stove), Adelaide (w/Stove); 1978 - Chichester (w/Newberry).

MIXED DOUBLES
Winner(1): 1987 - Roland Garros (w/E. Sanchez).

ADDITIONAL
United States Olympic Team 1988. United States Fed Cup Team 1986-7, 1989, 1992. United States Wightman Cup Team 1978-81, 1983, 1985, 1987.