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Mashona Washington
Mashona Washington (b. May 31, 1976, in Houston, Texas) is
a professional tennis player from the United States.
As a junior player, Washington won the US Indoor National
18s in 1992, and was a finalist at the US National Hardcourt 16s and US Indoor
National 16s in 1991. She turned professional in 1995.
After a slow start to her professional career, Washington's
breakthrough year came in 2004 when she broke into the world's top-100 for
the first time and then finished the year ranked in the top-50. She recorded
her first win against a top-10 player when she defeated Maria Sharapova at
New Haven, and reached her first top-level singles final in Tokyo where she
lost to Sharapova.
An African American, she is the sister of MaliVai Washington,
who reached the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1996.
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