Pam Shriver - US Open finalist aged 16, winning Olympic Gold, and partnering Martina Navratilova
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Catherine speaks to former world No.3 and 22-time Grand Slam doubles champion Pam Shriver, covering the start of her partnership with Martina Navratilova and their many successes together, her memories of the historic 1986 Fed Cup Final, her gold medal winning run with Zina Garrison in Seoul, what it was like to reach the US Open final as a 16-year-old, and her thoughts on when tennis might return.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mary and Bartolí. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Thundra Winka. I'm Layton Hutt. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi folks. Hope you're doing okay. Staying sane. Staying well. |
| 0:25.0 | This is our third Tennis Podcast of this week. |
| 0:29.0 | We think it is the first time we've ever released three Tennis Podcasts outside of tournament time. |
| 0:36.0 | Which is pretty good going, given there's not a Tennis tournament in sight at the moment. |
| 0:42.0 | So we're doing our best to keep entertained, to keep your breast of all the breaking news in the Tennis World |
| 0:50.0 | at the moment of which there is quite a lot courtesy of Roger Federer at Al. |
| 0:55.0 | We'll be back with more podcasts next week. |
| 0:58.0 | Our Monday will have our worst of tennis podcast predictions show. |
| 1:04.0 | And if Matt's research teases are anything to go by, I'm in for quite a hammering. |
| 1:12.0 | But that's for Monday for today. |
| 1:15.0 | We've got the entirety of the Pam Shriver interview. |
| 1:19.0 | You heard a little bit of it. And our tennis relived show earlier this week when we were talking about the Fed Cup final of the Fed Cup in 1986 in Prague. |
| 1:29.0 | And Pam's recollections of that experience, her teammates and doubles partner Martina and a battle over returning to her native checkers of acu for the first time since defecting to the United States. |
| 1:42.0 | Well, Pam was fascinating on a whole range of subjects as you would expect. |
| 1:49.0 | So we wanted to bring you the whole interview just a bit of housekeeping before I leave you with Pam. |
| 1:54.0 | And that is to correct a pronunciation from our tennis relived show earlier in the week when we ran a section of this Pam Shriver interview. |
| 2:02.0 | It was Frank DeFord, who is the co author of Pam's book, Passing Shots, that we referenced Frank DeFord was the co author of that book. |
| 2:13.0 | So without further ado, I will leave you with the fascinating and charming Pam Shriver. Here she is. |
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