Mashona Washington
Country (sports) | United States |
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Residence | Houston, Texas |
Born | Flint, Michigan | May 31, 1976
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Turned pro | 1995 |
Retired | 2012 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $975,863 |
Singles | |
Career record | 373–353 (51.4%) |
Career titles | 2 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 50 (November 8, 2004) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2005) |
French Open | 1R (2005, 2006) |
Wimbledon | 3R (2005) |
US Open | 2R (2002) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 213–207 (50.7%) |
Career titles | 15 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 55 (July 18, 2005) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2005) |
French Open | 2R (2004) |
Wimbledon | 3R (2003) |
US Open | 3R (1998, 2004) |
Mashona Washington (born May 31, 1976) is a retired tennis player from the United States.
Her career-high singles ranking is No. 50, achieved on November 8, 2004. On July 18, 2005, she peaked at No. 55 in the doubles rankings. Washington retired from professional tennis in 2012, aged 36.
Biography[]
Washington attended high school in Michigan, moved to Delray Beach, Florida in her sophomore year, graduating from Lake Worth Christian School, Boynton Beach, Florida in 1994, and moved to Houston, Texas, in 1997.[1]
She is the younger sister of Mashiska and of MaliVai Washington, who reached the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1996.
Tennis career[]
As a junior player, Washington won the U.S. Indoor National 18s in 1992, and was a finalist at the U.S. 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.
She also came within a hair's breadth of beating Sharapova in the first round of the 2006 French Open. She served for the match at 5–2, but could not hold serve. At 5–4 in the third set, she held match points before the then world No. 4 broke back and won the final set 7–5.
In 2005, she reached the third round at Wimbledon, where Elena Dementieva beat her 7–5, 6–1.
She was a member of the Washington Kastles World TeamTennis squad from 2008–09 and the Boston Lobsters from 2010-12.
Mashona Washington has since retired.
WTA career finals[]
Singles: 1 runner-up[]
Result | Date | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | October 10, 2004 | Japan Open | Hard | Maria Sharapova | 0–6, 1–6 |
Doubles: 2 runner-ups[]
Result | Date | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | October 9, 2004 | Japan Open | Hard | Jennifer Hopkins | Shinobu Asagoe Katarina Srebotnik |
1–6, 4–6 |
Loss | February 28, 2008 | U.S. National Indoors | Hard | Angela Haynes | Lindsay Davenport Lisa Raymond |
3–6, 1–6 |
ITF finals[]
Singles: 12 (2–10)[]
Doubles: 26 (15–11)[]
Grand Slam performance timelines[]
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
Singles[]
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- African-American female tennis players
- American female tennis players
- Sportspeople from Delray Beach, Florida
- Sportspeople from Flint, Michigan
- Tennis people from Florida
- Tennis people from Michigan
- 21st-century African-American sportspeople
- 21st-century African-American women
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople
- 20th-century African-American women