Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame member Pam Shriver has her trophies again, regaining the dozen or so items of {hardware} that have been in a automotive stolen from the lodge the place she was staying after evacuating from her house through the unfold of devastating wildfires within the larger Los Angeles space.
“It was an attention-grabbing chapter. I want the trophies might speak,” Shriver stated in a phone interview Friday. “I wish to have recognized the place they’ve been.”
Shriver received 21 Grand Slam doubles championships — all however one alongside Martina Navratilova — a gold medal on the 1984 Summer season Olympics and a complete of 111 doubles titles. Shriver, now a TV commentator and coach, was inducted into the game’s Corridor in 2002.
Like so many different LA residents, Shriver left her house as a part of a compulsory evacuation because the fires unfold. Ultimately, she stated, her house was wonderful.
However whereas she was staying at a lodge, a automotive that contained a few of her private belongings, together with household pictures going again many years, was taken. The automotive nonetheless has not been recovered, Shriver stated, however the trophies have been dropped off in packing containers positioned outdoors the lodge about 10 days later, and he or she lastly acquired them again this week.
“The trophies have been buried at the back of the automotive. You couldn’t look within the window and see them,” she stated. “I don’t suppose they have been of any good to the individuals who took the automotive. So that they ended up returning them.”
Shriver first heard the excellent news by way of a telephone name from the supervisor of the lodge. A detective picked up the trophies the subsequent day to fingerprint them, Shriver stated.
“Then the trophies have been launched to me,” she stated. “I regained custody.”
The haul included her 5 trophies for profitable the U.S. Open ladies’s doubles occasion — in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987 and 1991 — plus a bowl she acquired from the U.S. Tennis Affiliation after having been the singles runner-up in 1978 at age 16 as an beginner who, Shriver recalled, “acquired no cash, no trophy, some flowers.”
Additionally within the automotive have been the 4 French Open doubles trophies she and Navratilova received in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988. There was not less than one different silver trophy from tennis, plus — Shriver associated with fun — the reward she acquired for being honored as probably the most improved golfer at Brentwood Nation Membership in 2001.
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis author since 2002. Discover his tales right here: https://apnews.com/writer/howard-fendrich. Extra AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis
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