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Ora Washington
American tennis player (1898-1971) · United States · On the map · Tennis Players · Died at 73
Ora Belle Washington was an American athlete from the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Washington excelled in both tennis and basketball, and she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.
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Black newspapers referred to her as "Queen Ora" and the "Queen of Two Courts." According to Arthur Ashe, she may have been one of best tennis players of all time and "the first Black female to dominate a sport".
