Pam Shriver recovers her Grand Slam trophies that were stolen during L.A. wildfires 

There was much-needed good news for a member of the tennis family out of California this week, as International Tennis Hall of Famer Pam Shriver has recovered the Grand Slam trophies that went missing when her car was stolen after she fled nearby wildfires.

Eleven of Shriver's 22 career Grand Slam doubles trophies, along with other personal affects, were in her Dodge Durango Hellcat when it was stolen nearly two weeks ago from the parking lot of the Marina del Rey, Calif. hotel that she had evacuated to to escape the fires, which have raged in the Los Angeles area for nearly all of January.

"I was just starting to take things out to pack them in the car, and I was like, 'Where's the car?'" she told ESPN, which confirmed that five US Open trophies, five Roland Garros plates and one Australian Open trophy were among her missing belongings.

"It's really sad on so many levels that when people are at their lowest and in their most difficult times, people are doing things like this," she added.

But Shriver had a positive update for fans on Tuesday, when she revealed on X, formerly Twitter, that her trophies were safely with the Los Angeles Police Department, though the car was still missing.

"It’s too long a story for a post," she wrote. "We still hope to find black Dodge Durango Hellcat in one piece."

In a reply to Martina Navratilova, with whom she won the majority of those trophies, Shriver wrote she felt like she'd "won another major" with her belongngs recovered.

The continuing wildfires, which for the last three-plus weeks have burned nearly 60,000 acres across California, killed at least 29 people, forced more than 200,000 to evacuate, and destroyed or damaged more than 16,000 structures, have also impacted others in the tennis community.

In addition to Shriver, who could not attend the Australian Open in support of Donna Vekic, whom she's been advising since late 2022, Stanford alum Tristan Boyer, who made his Grand Slam main-draw debut in Melbourne, hails from Altadena, Calif.—a community at the center of one of the fires.

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Taylor Fritz, a Southern California native, announced that he'd be donating his first-round Australian Open prize money in support of wildfire relief, while Sinclair and Tennis Channel partnered with the Salvation Army to provide assistance to those most affected.