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When Zina Speaks, You Listen

Author
The Body Serve Tennis Podcast
Published
Tue 07 Jul 2020
Episode Link
https://thebodyserve.podbean.com/e/when-zina-speaks-you-listen/

We've just had the pleasure of chatting with the legendary Zina Garrison, gold medalist in Seoul, 3-time major mixed doubles champ, and the 1990 Wimbledon runner-up. Zina chats about her origins in tennis, shares her experience as a black woman in a very white sport, and takes us through some of the highlights of a great career. As Zina herself says, "Zina doesn't say much but when she does . . . " -- well, you listen.


 

4:10 Our chat with Lady Z


8:50 Zina takes us through her introduction to tennis, the first all-black WTA final (with Lori McNeil), and getting a kick out of her own record against Martina Navratilova 


18:00 That Monica Seles flowers incident (lol) and beating Chris Evert in her final match


22:00 Zina's 1990 Wimbledon run, 30 years later


26:00 "Now people can't say those things didn't happen" - how Black Lives Matter has shone a light on inequality in tennis


34:10 Althea Gibson as more than just an icon


38:00 So ... about the wiggle


41:00 The game since Zina retired - who's she watching now?

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