{"id":169054,"date":"2025-09-25T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:27:10","slug":"taylor-townsend-pulls-out-of-china-open-following-controversial-food-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169054\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Townsend pulls out of China Open following controversial food comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wcl-typoNewsPerex_JFWVr fp-perex_59joV\" data-testid=\"wcl-typoNewsPerex\" itemprop=\"description\">Doubles world number two Taylor Townsend has pulled out of the China Open in Beijing &#8220;due to a change of schedule&#8221;, the WTA told AFP Thursday, days after controversial comments about Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>The American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/townsend-taylor\/Y9jUuHka\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Townsend<\/a> came under fire for calling buffet food &#8220;crazy&#8221; while competing at the Billie Jean King Cup in Shenzhen which ended on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the hell.. turtle and bullfrog is WILD,&#8221; she posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These people are literally killing frogs, bullfrogs. Aren&#8217;t those the ones that give you warts and boils and stuff?&#8221; she added, before later apologising.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Townsend had been due to be the top seed with Czech partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/siniakova-katerina\/OKXs3Wah\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Katerina Siniakova<\/a> in the women&#8217;s doubles in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were beaten finalists at the US Open earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Townsend &#8220;withdrew from the doubles field before the draw was made due to a change of schedule,&#8221; a WTA communications official told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doubles world number two Taylor Townsend has pulled out of the China Open in Beijing &#8220;due to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-169054","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\/169054","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=169054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}