Pam Shriver

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

Hall of Famer Pam Shriver says she had an "inappropriate" relationship with her 50-year-old tennis coach, Don Candy, when she was 17.

"I just feel like it's time. And so I just kept it to myself." For me, I feel like it's important for my healing and it's important that I can maybe feel that me coming forward and talking about my story in detail might just help a few young players. He was married. He was married long before I took my first lesson from him. "He [Candy] was 33 years older.