Mashona Washington

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Mashona Washington (b. May 31, 1976, in Flint, Michigan) 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.