"It's really sad": Pam Shriver confirms numerous Grand Slam titles stolen while evacuating during fire in Los Angeles

Former women’s doubles world number one Pam Shriver has reported that her car full of Grand Slam titles was stolen as they were trying to evacuate during the Los Angeles fire. The natural catastrophe forced hundreds and thousands of people to leave their homes for safety.

One was the former world number one in the doubles category, Shriver, who was also forced to evacuate from her home for safety in an extraordinary crisis. The 62-year-old, in a post on her official account on the social media platform X — previously known as Twitter — where stated that her numerous Grand Slam titles were stolen along with her car as she was trying to evacuate during the fire in Los Angeles.

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“My son (and) I are at a police station reporting our car was stolen from the hotel parking lot we evacuated to when fires started,” she wrote. “This was the car that had most of my major trophies being stored until we could safely move back home. I was just starting to take things out to pack them in the car, and I was like, 'Where's the car?'. She was further quoted in a report highlighting that it was sad how people reacted at the time of calamity. "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 said.

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Shriver is often regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the doubles category. She lifted 21 Grand Slams in the doubles category. Her most successful competition was the Australian Open, where she won the title seven times. That’s not it, as she also won 10 WTA Finals titles in the doubles category. Other than that, she won an Olympic gold medal as well in 1988 in Seoul, where she and her partner Zina Garrison defeated the pair of Czech Republic’s Jana Novotna and Helena Sukova in the final in straight sets with a score of 7-6, 6-4.

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