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Mashona Washington (b. May 31 1976, in Houston,
Texas|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 aganist a
top-10 player when she defeated Maria Sharapova at
New Haven, Connecticut|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 Championships|Wimbledon in 1996. 

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