By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Friday, January 17, 2025
Photo credit: Clive Brunskill/Getty for ESPN
The deadly fires in southern California continue causing collateral damage.
Hall of Famer Pam Shriver is the victim of a Grand Slam heist.
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The former world No. 1 doubles champion said “most” of her Grand Slam trophies, stored in her car, are now gone after her car was stolen from a hotel parking lot.
“My son and I are at a police station reporting our car was stolen from the hotel parking lot we evacuated to when the fires started,” Pam Shriver posted on social media. “This was the car that had most of my major trophies being stored until we can safely move back home.”
ESPN analyst and 22-time major doubles champion Shriver told ESPN.com trophies were stored in a Dodge Durango Hellcat, parked in the Marina del Rey DoubleTree parking lot. Shriver said she discovered the car was missing at around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday and reported the theft to local police.
In all, Shriver reported five US Open trophies, five French Open plates and one Australian Open trophy were stolen.
Twenty-two time Grand Slam doubles champion Shriver was set to cover the Australian Open live in Melbourne, but returned to California when the fires erupted. Shriver's Brentwood home is safe, she told ESPN.com.
Shriver and her family checked out of the DoubleTree after the theft and were staying at a new hotel as of Thursday night. Shriver, who coached Donna Vekic to the Wimbledon semifinals last July, has had some sleepless nights watching Vekic's progress through the Australian Open draw.
The 18th-seeded Vekic, with Sascha Bajin in her coaching box, fought off talented left-hander Diana Shnaider 7-6(4), 6-7(3), 7-5 in a gripping three-hour third-round victory.
Vekic reached the AO fourth round for the the third time in five years and will face former French Open finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for a quarterfinal spot.
While monitoring her charge's Melbourne magic, Shriver is confronted with a grim reality experiencing the looting and theft that's followed the deadly fires.
"Now, my family's a victim of a crime, too," Shriver told ESPN.com. "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."