I could never separate the two which was always a tough thing for me, and that's why I think my career went up and down the way that it did," says Zina Garrison on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.

Zina Garrison may not play tennis anymore, but her legacy is secured. In 1988, she won gold and bronze medals for the U.S. at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea, the one dominated by a track ...

Zina Garrison fell asleep. I was interviewing the former fourth-ranked tennis player in the world, who in a fourteen-year career had bested Chris Evert, Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Martina ...

For the first time, an African-American reached the quarterfinals (or better) in all five of the professional disciplines—men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed ...

Many readers will recognize Zina Garrison as the first Black woman since Althea Gibson in 1956 to play a Grand Slam final. That was in 1990, at Wimbledon. A former world No. 1 junior, Garrison won ...

Tennis great Zina Garrison shares some of the music that inspires her. Garrison was the first black woman to reach the Wimbledon finals since Althea Gibson did it in the 1950s. She ranked No. 4 in ...

The former Grand Slam tennis champion was the first to be eliminated this season Tennis superstar Zina Garrison is used to being in charge. Formerly the world’s No. 1 junior tennis player and a ...

Editor’s note: With the WTA Finals heading to Fort Worth this year, we take a look back at the career of one of the most successful WTA players to hail from the state of Texas, Zina Garrison. Zina ...

Former American tennis star Zina Garrison, 50, will be one of the 20 contestants looking to reclaim a healthy lifestyle and pocket the $250,000 grand prize. Garrison knows firsthand how difficult ...

We watched the “big kids,” like Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil, dominate the court long before they went on to become national champions and play at Wimbledon. MacGregor Park holds such ...