Pam Shriver

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.

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.

Tennis legend Pam Shriver has outed her former coach Don Candy over a "damaging" affair that started when s...

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.” I believe abusive coaching relationships are alarmingly common in sport as a whole. Shriver, who is now 59, turned pro in 1979, a year after she made it to the US Open singles final at age 16.

Former US tennis star Pam Shriver has opened up on what she believes was an “inappropriate and damaging relationship” with her Australian coach Don Candy ...

“And then there’s the coaches. “Don never abused me sexually, but I would say there was emotional abuse. “Even so, he was the grown-up here.