{"id":110833,"date":"2025-09-01T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110833\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:29:07","slug":"taylor-townsends-us-open-run-comes-to-crashing-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110833\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Townsend’s US Open run comes to crashing end"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her singles career, Taylor Townsend fell just short.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old American lost her way in a 6-1, 6-7 (13), 3-6 defeat at the hands of Czechia\u2019s Barbora Krejcikova on Sunday evening, blowing a one-set lead and eight total match points inside a jam-packed Louis Armstrong Stadium.<\/p>\n

A riveting three-hour, four-minute clash concluded with Townsend pulling her hat over her teary eyes. <\/p>\n

She later agreed with the notion that this was the toughest singles loss of her career.<\/p>\n

Krejcikova now will face another American in Jessica Pegula on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Taylor Townsend reacts during her match against Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) in the fourth round in Louis Armstrong Stadium on day 8 at the 2025 US Open Tennis Championship. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m exactly where I need to be, that\u2019s it,\u201d Townsend said of what she\u2019s learned from this singles run. \u201cI\u2019m playing the tennis that I need to play to be inside the top 20, top 10, to win a Grand Slam. She\u2019s a two-time Grand Slam champion. I\u2019ve beaten a Grand Slam champion this tournament. So I have everything that I need.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just about now, just keep getting the reps and keep putting myself in these types of positions. This hurts, but it\u2019s part of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After a postmatch exchange with second-round opponent Jelena Ostapenko, in which the Latvian hurled insults across the net<\/a>, Townsend quickly became the player of the tournament.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s had the U.S. Open crowd behind her in a different way than the American players usually do, and Sunday was no different.<\/p>\n

The class she displayed<\/a> earned her many new supporters, who had nearly every single seat filled in Louis Armstrong Stadium.<\/p>\n

And, boy, did they get a show.<\/p>\n

Taylor Townsend, of the United States, reacts to losing advantage against Barbora Krejcikova. AP<\/p>\n

Taylor Townsend of the U.S. in action during her fourth round match against Czech Republic\u2019s Barbora Krejcikova. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Townsend needed just 28 minutes to take the first set, in which the world No. 139 hit 93 percent of her first serves in. <\/p>\n

There was zero doubt in her play at first, but it steadily crept in as the second set progressed.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until the first game of the second set that Townsend committed her first double-fault of the match.<\/p>\n

Czech Republic\u2019s Barbora Krejcikova in action during her round of 16 match against Taylor Townsend. REUTERS<\/p>\n

There was simply much more pushback from Krejcikova in the second set, but it came down to the very end.<\/p>\n

As \u201cHere we go, Taylor!\u201d chants and claps soared out of the open roof of Louis Armstrong, Krejcikova broke Townsend to go up 6-5. Townsend responded with a break of her own to force a tiebreaker, in which Krejcikova saved seven match points \u2014 including three in a row \u2014 before taking the set.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was holding my breath, just like you guys,\u201d Townsend said with a smile. \u201cIt was intense for sure. But, I mean, it was high-level tennis. I can\u2019t get mad. Fractions of a centimeter, of an inch. The backhand down the line on the match point, where I barely clipped the line. You know, like, what do you do?\u201d<\/p>\n

USA\u2019s Taylor Townsend departs after being defeated by the Czech Republic\u2019s Barbora Krejcikova during their women\u2019s singles Round of 16 tennis match on August 31, 2025 AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

It was clear Townsend started to run out of gas in the third set. <\/p>\n

The fire had subsided and the execution wavered.<\/p>\n

Krejcikova jumped out to a 4-2 lead before Townsend broke her in the seventh game, which led to Townsend letting out an emphatic yell in celebration. <\/p>\n

Capitalizing on her third breakpoint, Krejcikova took a 5-3 advantage and ground out the final game to victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still got a lot of tennis to play,\u201d Townsend said, referencing her doubles run with partner Katerina Siniakova that will resume Monday. \u201cI\u2019m here for the doubles, and so never know what type of catalyst or catapult that this match will propel me forward. I truly believe that this whole tournament has been a game-changer for me. More than anything \u2014 I don\u2019t feel \u2014 I know that I\u2019m exactly where I need to be in order to fulfill every goal I have as a tennis player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her singles career,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,23967,593,25853],"class_list":{"0":"post-110833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-taylor-townsend","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}