LONDON — Former expert tennis player Pam Shriver, now a television commentator for ESPN and the BBC, suggests that she “had an inappropriate and damaging romantic relationship with my a lot more mature coach” that started when she was 17 and he was 50.
In a initially-man or woman account revealed Wednesday by British newspaper The Telegraph, Shriver describes a “painful and psychological journey” that provided what she writes was a marriage with mentor Don Sweet that lasted a minimal a lot more than 5 years.
Candy died in 2020.
“I nevertheless have conflicted feelings about Don. Certainly, he and I became associated in a very long and inappropriate affair. Sure, he was dishonest on his wife. But there was a whole lot about him that was trustworthy and authentic. And I liked him,” she says. “Even so, he was the developed-up below. He should have been the honest adult.”
Shriver, who is now 59, turned pro in 1979, a calendar year just after she created it to the U.S. Open up singles final at age 16. She conquer Martina Navratilova in the semifinals just before getting rid of the title match to Chris Evert.
Shriver, who is from Maryland, would later on crew with Navratilova to earn 21 Grand Slam trophies in women’s doubles.
In Wednesday’s piece, Shriver writes her “main enthusiasm is to allow individuals know this still goes on — a whole lot. I believe abusive coaching interactions are alarmingly popular in sport as a whole. My unique abilities, however, is in tennis, the place I have witnessed dozens of cases in my 4-and-a-bit a long time as a player and commentator.”
“Every time I hear about a participant who is dating their mentor, or I see a male physio functioning on a female system in the gymnasium, it sets my alarm bells ringing,” she claims.
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