Pam Shriver’s Tennis Juggling Act

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 TimesINDIAN 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.

There had been practice and strategy sessions with Donna Vekic, the talented 26-year-old Croat she has been helping coach since October. She had been going…