Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: The pioneering tennis star is the tournament director for the Chicago Tennis Festival which makes her the first African ...

Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff is making her filmmaking debut with two original “Tennis Story” documentary shorts on tennis history and trailblazer Zina Garrison. She has partnered with Tennis Channel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*Before there were powerhouse tennis players Venus and Serena Williams, there was Zina Garrison. At the 1988 Olympics,’ Garrison made her family and the U.S. proud by nabbing a women’s doubles gold ...

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For our sixth annual Heroes Issue, we’ve selected passages from the last 50 years of Tennis Magazine and TENNIS.com—starting in 1969 and ending in 2018—to highlight 50 worthy heroes. Each passage ...

MANHATTAN (CN) – Zina Garrison accuses the U.S. Tennis Association of racial discrimination and retaliation. She claims the USTA paid her less than her white male counterpart, Patrick McEnroe, and ...

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. “I just looked ...

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 ...