Shriver and regular doubles partner Martina Navratilova are the only women's pair to complete the Grand Slam in a calendar year, winning all four majors in 1984.

Shriver was well known for her variety, including sharp volleys and all-round solid technique at the net.

She also possessed a strong slice forehand and underspin approach,[1] which set her apart from the rest of the women's field, but she had a comparatively weak chip backhand.

She lost the next eight Grand Slam singles semifinals she played, four of them to Navratilova, two to Steffi Graf, and one each to Evert and Hana Mandlíková.

In 2022, Shriver disclosed that she had been in a multi-year inappropriate relationship with her coach, Australian Don Candy, that started when she was a teenager.

[2][3] She chose to reveal the story in part because of her concern that there are ongoing issues with young tennis players being placed in vulnerable situations.

Shriver won another women's doubles Grand Slam title at the US Open in 1991, partnering with Natasha Zvereva.

Her first husband, Joe Shapiro, a former Walt Disney Company lawyer, died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1999.

She is a fourth cousin of Maria Shriver,[11] the former First Lady of California and niece of President John F. Kennedy.

[12] In 2021, Shriver became a supporter of the new Women's Sports Policy Working Group[13] formed in response to President Joe Biden's executive order that mandates blanket inclusion for all transgender female athletes.