EXCLUSIVE: The pioneering tennis star is the tournament director for the Chicago Tennis Festival which makes her the first African American woman to lead a tournament at that level Zina Garrison may ...

Zina Garrison (middle) won a gold and bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics. *Before there were powerhouse tennis players Venus and Serena Williams, there was Zina Garrison. At the 1988 Olympics,’ ...

Traci Green, women’s tennis coach at Harvard University, remembers when her father took her to see Zina Garrison play at the U.S. Open. Garrison was the first Black woman to reach the finals of a ...

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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 ...

When it comes to inspiring role models, Venus and Serena Williams have frequently praised all they learned from their fellow American, Zina Garrison. Over the course of 15 years as a pro, Garrison ...

Long before Venus and Serena Williams rose to fame, Zina Garrison garnered international recognition in tennis. While attending Sterling High School, Garrison won the Junior U.S. Open and Junior ...

The “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs at the Astrodome in 1973. It was a winner-take-all match with a $100,000 prize. Riggs played up his male chauvinistic ...

As the Australian Open gets underway today, host Michel Martin profiles the career of one tennis great from decades past —Zina Garrison. Garrison was ranked number four in the world in 1990, the year ...

NEW YORK(AP) Former Fed Cup captain Zina Garrison is suing the U.S. Tennis Association, saying she was discriminated against because she is black. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan federal ...

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 athlete ...