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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- Zina Garrison had just enough clothes to get by and her beloved Peekapoo pup, Sochi, in her arms as she decided to leave her Houston home with Hurricane Harvey approaching last Thursday.

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 ...

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 ...

Zina Garrison was counting on following her runner-up finish at Wimbledon with her first final berth at the U.S. Open. And in a not-so-small way, the tournament was counting on her as well.

Before Wimbledon and before the Olympics, Zina Garrison started playing tennis at Houston’s MacGregor Park. “For me, I didn’t really look at it as being a child prodigy,” Garrison said.

For Olympic tennis gold medalist Zina Garrison, the wakeup call about her weight came from tennis legend and friend Billie Jean King. "I told her I needed to tackle my weight, and she agreed.