Pam Shriver

Tennis great Pam Shriver said that 'inappropriate' relationships between coach and player still exist and more needs to be done to address it.

"The point has to be made very clearly: these kinds of relationships are not appropriate, and there will be consequences for those who cross the line," she said. She said they had intercourse when she was 20. “Yes, he and I became involved in a long and inappropriate affair. Candy, who died in 2020, was 50 years old at the time. In a different world, he would have found a way to keep things professional. But there was a lot about him that was honest and authentic.

ESPN tennis analyst Pam Shriver told ESPN's Outside the Lines that she was in what she called "an inappropriate and damaging relationship with my much older ...

And it really wasn't until sometime later, like really when the relationship was over, that I realized how much help I did need at the time." "And so, I just feel like it's time for me. The pause of the pandemic, realizing that my kids were of similar age I was when the relationship started. I feel like it's important for my healing. I kept it a secret from my family. I never kept a secret from my parents of any size except this one. "It never should have been with my coach and ... I've just realized that it's time to talk about my story and hopefully make it easier for some other people who've also had stories that are similar." And so I just kept it to myself. It also took, I think, some reflection when my, my mom died last August. She died, never knowing that this happened. Every time I hear about a player who is dating their coach, or I see a male physio working on a female body in the gym, it sets my alarm bells ringing." Shriver reached the finals of the 1978 US Open as an amateur, but never reached another title match in a Grand Slam. Candy was 33 years older than Shriver. She said he never abused her sexually, but Shriver did say she felt there was emotional abuse.

The five-time Wimbledon doubles champion wrote that Don Candy did not sexually abuse her, but there was emotional abuse.

The health and safety of all WTA Tour stakeholders—including the players—is our priority, and our commitment to safeguarding remains resolute.” The tennis star described the relationship as “traumatic,” adding that it “shaped my whole experience of romantic life. And although it lasted five years, the now 59-year-old ESPN tennis analyst chose to speak out because “this still goes on—a lot.”

Pam Shriver has opened up on the “inappropriate” relationship she had with her coach while a teenager, telling her story in the hope tennis bodies act to ...

“The same goes for other credential-holders: physios, fitness trainers and so on. The best way to protect their charges is to put them through an education process before they arrive on tour. The worst would be my anger and jealousy when his wife came to tournaments,” she wrote. “By the time they graduate to the main tennis tour, many patterns have already been set. “I believe abusive coaching relationships are alarmingly common in sport as a whole. Only after therapy did I start to feel a little less responsible.

The tennis star and ESPN analyst said she was in a relationship with her “much older coach” for about five years, starting when she was a teenager.

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In a first-person account published Wednesday by British newspaper 'The Telegraph', Shriver describes a "painful and emotional journey" that included what ...

My particular expertise, though, is in tennis, where I have witnessed dozens of instances in my four-and-a-bit decades as a player and commentator.” Shriver, who is now 59, turned pro in 1979, a year after she made it to the U.S. Open singles final at age 16. I believe abusive coaching relationships are alarmingly common in sport as a whole. “Even so, he was the grown-up here. He should have been the trustworthy adult.” Yes, he was cheating on his wife.

Pam Shriver, the ESPN and BBC tennis analyst who rose to prominence as a teenage player from Lutherville, revealed Wednesday that she was involved in an ...