Taylor Townsend hit headlines at her home Grand Slam tournament through no fault of her own, after Jelena Ostapenko confronted her at the conclusion of their second-round match.<\/p>\n
Townsend later revealed that her opponent told her she had “no class” and “no education”. Former French Open champion Ostapenko has since received a lot of backlash, while fans have leapt to Townsend’s defence.<\/p>\n
The American continued her incredible run in the singles draw by beating No. 5 seed Mirra Andreeva on Friday night under the lights on Arthur Ashe Stadium. And she said it hadn’t been difficult to block out the nose of the post-Ostapenko match drama.<\/p>\n
“I wasn’t hard at all. I said to my team, I’m made for this type of stuff,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I really feel like, you know, it wasn’t hard, because I stood in my truth. So there was, I didn’t have to defend anything that I said. What I said, I said, and I meant.<\/p>\n
“So, you know, for me, it was also good because I had doubles the next day. So I had to get right back on the page, because at the end of the day, I would never allow any drama or anything on the outside to deter me from what my goal is when I step into the lines on the court. When I step into those gates, nothing that’s happening on the outside matters.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Townsend hit headlines at her home Grand Slam tournament through no fault of her own, after Jelena…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[870,7510,6962,811,6766,101,118,12700,56,54,55,6545,50488,50417,50418,25257,43352,41292,7259],"class_list":["post-103657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-coco-gauff","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-section","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-open","tag-us-open-highlights","tag-us-open-latest","tag-us-open-matches","tag-us-open-news","tag-us-open-order-of-play","tag-us-open-schedule","tag-us-open-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}