{"id":101208,"date":"2025-08-28T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101208\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:31:08","slug":"taylor-townsend-and-jelena-ostapenko-in-heated-clash-after-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101208\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko in heated clash after match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Open opponents Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got into a face-to-face argument on the Court 11 sideline right after their second-round match ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me I have no class, no education, and to see what happens when we get outside the US,\u201d Townsend, who is from Chicago, said after her 7-5, 6-1 victory over 2017 French Open champion Ostapenko, who is from Latvia, on Thursday (AEST).<\/p>\n<p>After the two players met at the net for a post-match handshake, they stayed near each other instead of going their separate ways, as players usually do. Ostapenko wagged a finger at Townsend as they spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s competition,\u201d Townsend said. \u201cPeople get upset when they lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added Townsend: \u201cWhen she was playing well, I didn\u2019t say anything. That just shows class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Townsend recently rose to No.1 in the WTA doubles rankings. But this is her first time reaching the third round in singles at a grand slam tournament since 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jelena Ostapenko had a few things to say to Taylor Townsend after her loss at the US Open.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f1be9e27e5f3c95359e36490a6730731ed8cf2be.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jelena Ostapenko had a few things to say to Taylor Townsend after her loss at the US Open.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>In singles, Townsend is No.139. She is the lowest-ranked American woman to beat a past grand slam champion in singles at a major since Kristie Ahn defeated \u2013 guess who? \u2013 Ostapenko at the 2019 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Open opponents Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got into a face-to-face argument on the Court 11 sideline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-101208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}