With twenty-three ATA National Championships to Washington’s name, she has won more US Open titles than any player in history. I say US Open titles because the ATA Nationals has always been open to everyone regardless of class, race, or gender. As a working-class black woman, Washington is overlooked, ignored and largely unknown by the public—because of her class, race, gender, and sexuality. Washington had plenty of experience defeating white women in sporting contests which were not as strictly racially segregated as tennis. Like several other early ATA National champs—such as Dora Cole Newman, Isadore Channels, Eyre Saitch and Lula Ballard—Washington was also a star basketball player. What sets Washington apart from everyone else is she was the best at both sports. In A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, Arthur Ashe wrote that Washington “may have been the best female athlete ever.” Washington's great nephew, Gregory Price, pointed out that no man has ever been the best at two sports. And certainly not while working a full-time job as a menial laborer. Almost a half century after Washington’s death, she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame but has not yet been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Tennis statistician Jeff Sackmann wrote: “It's well past time that she receives the same recognition for her tennis.”