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Garrison, Zina (1963—)
American tennis player who was the first African-American woman to reach the Wimbledon finals since Althea Gibson. Name variations: Zina Garrison-Jackson.
Born in Houston, Texas, in 1963; the youngest of the seven children of Ulysses and Mary Garrison; graduated from Ross S. Sterling High School; married Willard Jackson.
The first African-American woman to reach the Wimbledon finals since Althea Gibson in the 1950s, Zina Garrison is one of the few black women to have enjoyed a successful career in a game dominated by whites.
When she retired from tennis in 1995, she was praised not only as a trailblazer and a role-model, but as a social-minded philanthropist who has given her time and money to improve life for the homeless and inner-city youth of Houston, Texas, where she was born and raised.
Garrison was the last of seven children.
To prove it, her mother, who was 42 when Zina was born, saw to it that her name began with a "Z." When she was still a