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While staying at the hotel due to the fires that ravaged Los Angeles, the former Tennis player was robbed of the majority of the awards acquired during her rich career.
Like tens of thousands of Los Angeles residents, Pam Shriver had to leave her home to escape the fires that have been ravaging the city for ten days. And if she did not forget, when leaving, to take all her trophies with her, the former tennis champion lost some of them in history. Her car, in which she had left many of her rewards, was stolen. She announced it herself on her X account.
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“My son and I are at the police station to report that our car was stolen from the parking lot of the hotel we evacuated to when the fires started. It was the car where my most important trophies were located. They were stored there until we could safely return home,” she wrote.
My son & I are at a police station reporting our car was stolen from the hotel parking lot we evacuated to when fires started. This was the car that had most of my major trophies being stored until we could safely move back home.ud83dude21
-— Pam Shriver (@PHShriver) https://twitter.com/PHShriver/status/1879946709251567918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Asked by the American media ESPN, Pam Shriver regretted that such an event could have occurred, particularly in the current context: “It’s really sad in many ways that when people are at their lowest and in moments the hardest ones, people do things like that.”
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World number 3 in singles in 1984, it was especially in doubles that the American wrote her legend and lifted trophies. She notably won 22 Grand Slam doubles tournaments, including five at Roland-Garros, as well as a gold medal at the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988. She also won the WTA Finals ten times and the Fed Cup twice. .
