Katrina Adams knew she was on the wrong side of the fence.This was in the summer of 1975, when Arthur Ashe would become the first black man to win Wimbledon, when Adams was just 6 going on 7, a ...

For Katrina Adams, discovering tennis at all was unexpected. “I had a middle-class background ... Adams’ doubles partner at NU. “We kind of kept each other in check,” Stone said.

When Katrina Adams turned pro as a 19-year-old in the late 1980s, her doubles partner was Zina Garrison, a top-10 singles player who had started her career a few years earlier. The pair trained ...