Mashona Washington

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**Mashona Washington**

Country	United States
Residence	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Date of birth	May 31, 1976 (1976-05-31) (age 32)
Place of birth	Flint, Michigan, U.S.
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight	130 lbs. (59 kg)
Turned pro	1995
Plays	Right-handed (Two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$863,905
Singles
Career record:	306-288
Career titles:	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 50 (November 8, 2004)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2r (2005)
French Open	1r (2005, 2006)
Wimbledon	3r (2005)
US Open	2r (2002)
Doubles
Career record:	125-143
Career titles:	0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 55 (July 18, 2005)
Infobox last updated on: March 25, 2008.

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.

She also came within a hair's breadth of beating Maria 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.

She is the younger sister of MaliVai Washington, who reached the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1996.

She joined the Washington Kastles in 2008.