This reunion was all love.
Retired professional tennis champ Pam Shriver was reunited with the trophies that had been stolen from the lodge she was staying at after she evacuated her house in the course of the LA wildfires.
“It was an attention-grabbing chapter. I want the trophies may discuss,” Shriver stated on Friday. “I want to have recognized the place they’ve been.”
On Jan. 15, Shriver, 62, was at a lodge in Marina del Rey when her Dodge Durango Hellcat, which contained 11 tennis trophies and different prized possessions, like outdated household images, was stolen.
Ten days after the theft, the trophies had been positioned exterior the lodge in packing containers, however the automobile nonetheless hasn’t been recovered.
“The trophies had been buried at the back of the automobile. You couldn’t look within the window and see them,” Shriver, who now works as a TV commentator and coach, continued.
“I don’t assume they had been of any good to the individuals who took the automobile. So that they ended up returning them.”
She acquired the information of their return through a cellphone name from the lodge’s supervisor. Earlier than she was capable of take them again, a detective fingerprinted them.
“Then the trophies had been launched to me,” she stated. “I regained custody.”
Among the many 11 pilfered trophies had been 5 she was awarded for profitable the U.S. Open girls’s doubles championship, 5 French Open plates and one trophy from the Australian Open.
Shriver, who’s a member of the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame, received 21 Grand Slam doubles championships — all however one partnered with Martina Navratilova — a gold medal on the 1984 Summer time Olympics and 111 doubles titles in her storied profession.
On Tuesday, after the mementos had been discovered, Shriver wrote to Navratilova on X, saying, “Thanks for calling companion. At this time appears like we received one other main!”
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