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Pam Shriver’s Tennis Juggling Act

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The 21-time Grand Slam doubles champion is doing four-way duty as a television commentator, a coach, an ally to sexual abuse survivors and an agitator for changing the game’s culture.

Pam Shriver, left, and Karen Denison Clark connected through email earlier this year. They finally met last week at the BNP Paribus Open in Indian Wells, Calif.Credit...Allison Dinner for The New York Times

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — It was late in the afternoon of an early round at the BNP Paribas Open in the California desert, and Pam Shriver was having a day.