Winona Closterman was an American female tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player.

She reached the finals in the doubles at the U.S. National Championships

U.S. Open (tennis)

The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...

 in 1902 with Maud Banks

Maud Banks

Maud Banks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was a tennis champion who played in the latter stages of the 19th Century and in the early part of the 20th Century....

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At the international tennis tournament in Cincinnati

Cincinnati Masters

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, she made 14 finals appearances, winning singles titles in 1901 and 1903, a doubles title in 1903, and mixed doubles titles in 1899, 1902 and 1904. She also reached two singles finals (1902 and 1904), five other doubles finals (1899–1902 and 1904), and one other mixed doubles final (1903) at Cincinnati. In 1901, she beat two future "International Tennis Hall of Famers" players in the singles matches to win the title. The first was 1899 U.S. singles champ Marion Jones

Marion Jones

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 of Nevada in the semifinals (whom she beat 7–5, 6–0) and Juliette Atkinson

Juliette Atkinson

Juliette Paxton Atkinson was an American female tennis player. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey, United States....

 in the final, whom she beat in straight sets in the best-of-five format, 6–2, 8–6, 6–1.

Also in 1901 she won the Southern Women’s Tennis Championship and was a finalist to Myrtle McAteer

Myrtle McAteer

Myrtle McAteer was an American tennis player around the turn of the 20th Century....

at the Western Tennis Championships in Chicago.