Zina Garrison was also a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist and singles bronze medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games. During one tournament, Mary suffered a heart attack, and later, underwent. It’s been tough for me … Things have improved but sometimes people get a misconception because you have a couple of top black players and they say: ‘Well, it’s not bad, look at Venus and Serena.’ Just because you have a couple that it has been solved”. Zina Garrison finished each year from 1983 to 1990 ranked in the Top 10 except 1986, when she slipped to No.
There were only two people in that time getting ready to go on record and that was Billie Jean King and Venus Williams.
People in the background would tell me stories but nobody was willing to come to the rescue. "I was told at the time: ‘That doesn’t really happen.’ No one would really back me up. The lawsuit was eventually settled with the USTA in 2009. The members of the Zina Garrison Tennis Academy along with Winston Art recently got their hands dirty for a great cause - the Art for Good beautification art project in the ZGA Community Garden at. Garrison has taken up the issue of racial discrimination herself in the past, when she filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the USTA, saying that she was paid lesser than the Davis Cup coach, Patrick McEnroe, and her successor, Mary Joe Fernández.
All we can do is be there for that you can’t deny it”. “We can’t focus on what someone’s going to give us or not give us. The Black Lives Matter movement has been in the news of late and several tennis players have spoken up to highlight the issue.
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