 "American tennis great Pam Shriver won 22 Grand Slam trophies in her tennis career. Image: Reuters")
Legendary tennis player Pam Shriver has lost multiple Grand Slam trophies after her car was stolen from a hotel in Marina del Rey, Los Angeles County, California. The 62-year-old tennis great had stored some of her Grand Slam trophies in the car after escaping the Pacific Palisades fire which has resulted in large-scale property damage and loss of multiple lives .
Shriver told ESPN that her car – a Dodge Durango Hellcat – was stolen from the parking lot of the Marina del Rey DoubleTree hotel. She realized the robbery at around 7.30 am on Thursday when she wanted to store more things in the car.
“I was just starting to take things out to pack them in the car, and I was like, ‘Where’s the car?’” said Shriver, who now works as a tennis analyst.
As per the report, the car had five US Open trophies, five French Open plates, and one Australian Open trophy.
Shriver led a glittering tennis career
As a player, Shriver won 21 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles and one mixed doubles major trophy. She won the Australian Open mixed doubles tournament six times, Wimbledon and French Open women’s doubles titles five times each, and the French Open women’s doubles competition four times. Her only mixed doubles major trophy came at the French Open.
Shriver also won women’s Doubles Olympics gold in Seoul 1988.
The American tennis legend also informed that the car had her family photos which were found by a passerby around 9 am in South LA. Shriver has since launched a report at a police station and the detectives are looking for the car.
“Now, my family’s a victim of a crime, too,” Shriver said. “It’s really sad on so many levels that when people are at their lowest and in their most difficult times, people are doing things like this.”
She added that her family also moved to a new hotel from DoubleTree on Thursday.
Shriver moved to the hotel after the fire erupted in Pacific Palisades in LA and carried some important stuff with her in the car. Her home in Brentwood is reportedly untouched by fire but she will only return after heating and power are restored.