Pam Shriver is a retired American professional tennis player who currently works for ESPN as a tennis broadcaster. In her tennis career, she has won 133 titles including 21 women's singles titles and 11 women's doubles titles.
Shriver specialized in doubles and has also won a women's doubles gold medal for her country in the 1988 Olympic Games with her tennis partner Zina Garrison. She was famous for her sharp volleys and reliable all-around technique at the net. She applied the serve-and-volley playstyle.
Pam Shriver has the net worth of around $10 million. Well, she earned a huge salary when she was in her tennis-playing career due to which she has managed to live such a lavish life. The former professional tennis player reportedly made a total of $5,460,566 in career winnings.
She is currently working with ESPN and has reportedly the salary of $400 thousand annually. All her years of experience as a tennis player has not only helped her to make her earn millions even after her retirement from the profession.
She owns a million-dollar estate in Los Angeles, California (CA), US. According to the source, the median home value in Los Angeles is $689,700.
Pam Shriver's first husband was Joe Shapiro, who was a former Walt Disney Company Lawyer. Shapiro died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1999. Shriver married actor George Lazenby in 2002.
A year after Shriver's twins were born, she filed for divorce in August 2008 ending her six-year marriage. She remained in a marital life for more than a decade, and currently, she is not found to be involved in a relationship.
She gave birth to three children with Lazenby. Her first child, George, Jr. was born on July 12, 2004. She gave birth to twins Kate and Sam on October 1, 2005.
In addition to this, former tennis players haven't revealed about her other relationships with anyone. If you take a closer look at her life, you will see that she is currently taking care of her children.
Pam's birth name is Pamela Howard Shriver. She was born on July 4, 1962, in Baltimore, Maryland, the U.S. Her father was Sam Shriver while mother was Margot Shriver.
She attended the McDonogh School where she graduated from in 1979. Shriver showed a talent for tennis since a young age and at the age of 16, had managed to reach the finals of the U.S. Open as an amateur.
In 1978, Pam Shriver had reached the women's singles finals at the age of 16. She had defeated the reigning Wimbledon champion, Martina Navratil in the semifinal but lost to Chris Evert in the final. Reaching the finals in her amateur run and defeating the Wimbledon champion helped Shriver to gain prominence in her career. Shriver was not able to make another Grand Slam singles return in the years to follow.
From the year 1978 until Shriver's retirement in 1997, she won 21 singles titles. Her doubles were even grander than her singles win. She won 79 Women's doubles titles and won 112 career doubles titles overall. She is one of the six female players to have won more than 100 career titles.
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Pam Shriver and Martina Navratil made one of the most successful women's doubles team. They have won Australian Open, five Wimbledon, five US Open and four French open titles together. They also made a record of 109-match winning streak between 1983 and 1985. From 1981 to 1988, the pair were announced WTA Tour's Doubles Team of the year for eight consecutive times.
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Shriver briefly held the title of World no. 1 double ranking in 1985 which was taken by her playing partner Navratilova later on. Since her retirement from tennis, she has been involved with a network such as ABC, CBS, ESPN, and BBC to provide television commentary. She currently is working with ESPN.
