Zina Garrison

Zina Lynna Garrison (Houston (Texas), 16 november 1963) is an American former tennis player.

Won Wimbledon and the Garrison In 1981 US Open for juniors. A year later, she was professional, and obtained during her first participation in the Roland Garros quarter-final. In 1983 she reached the semifinal of the Australian Open and finished the year in the top ten.

At the 1988 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal together with Pam Shriver in the women's doubles game, in the final to Jana Novotná and Helena Suková to beat.They also knew the bronze medal in the singles to claim for itself. In 1989 the Garrison reached semifinal at the u.s. Open, where she lost to Martina Navratilova. She finished 1989 with her highest ranking on the WTA Tour, the 4th place.

The highlight of her career came at Wimbledon in 1990. She defeated Monica Seles in the quarterfinals and defending champion Steffi Graf a round later, making her first and only Grand Slam singles final Garrison reached. This she lost by Navratilova in two sets. Garisson was after Althea Gibson in 1958 the second black woman who took out the final of Wimbledon.

Garrison retired from the professional tour in 1996. During her career, she won 14 singles tournaments and 20 doubles titles. Today, Garrison zelfopgezette to her charities. Since 2004 she is also captain of the u.s. Fed Cup team.



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 * 1 Grand Slam singles finals
 * 1.1 singles
 * 1.2 Womern's doubles game
 * 1.3 mixed doubles
 * 2 singles performance timeline
 * 2.1 Grand slam singles
 * <span class="tocnumber" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none;">2.2 <span style="background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">  <span class="toctext" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none;">Grand slam doubles