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• ZINA GARRISON FULL

She won her first top-level singles titles in 1984 at the European Indoor Championships in Zürich.

ZINA GARRISON FULL

She reached the Australian Open semifinals in her first full year on the tour – 1983 – and finished the year ranked World No. Garrison turned professional in 1982, and skipped her graduation at Ross Sterling High School to compete in the French Open, her first tournament as a professional, where she reached the quarterfinals before being knocked-out by Martina Navrátilová.ĭespite battling bulimia during her first few years on the tour, Garrison enjoyed notable success on-court. I felt I was never going to be allowed to grow into just becoming me." "The pressure of being labeled 'the next Althea Gibson' only made things worse. "I had never been comfortable with my looks and felt I had lost the only person who loved me unconditionally," Garrison told the British Observer Sport Monthly in 2006. Garrison began suffering from the eating disorder bulimia when she was 19, following the death of her mother. Garrison graduated from Sterling High School in Houston in 1982. And then in 1981, she won both the Wimbledon and US Open junior titles and was ranked the World No. At the age of 14 she won the national girls' 18s title. Her success as a junior player quickly made the tennis world take notice. An African American and the youngest of seven children, Garrison started playing tennis at the age of 10 and entered her first tournament at the age of 12.