{"id":98446,"date":"2025-08-28T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98446\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:09:07","slug":"us-open-live-star-denies-racism-claims-after-explosive-row-erupts-on-court-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98446\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open LIVE: Star denies racism claims after explosive row erupts on court | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latvian star Jelena Ostapenko has denied racism allegations following her fiery row with Taylor Townsend.<\/p>\n<p>She told her American rival that she had \u2018no class\u2019 and \u2018no education\u2019, prompting some individuals to raise questions about the undertones of her message.<\/p>\n<p>But Ostapenko has since hit back at the allegations in a post on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/instagram\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> story, which read: \u201cWow how many messages I received that I am racist. I was NEVER racist in my life and I respect all nations of people in the world. For me it doesn&#8217;t matter where you come from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some rules in tennis and unfortunately when the crowd is with you, you can\u2019t use it in disrespectful way to your opponent. Unfortunately for me coming from such a small country I don\u2019t have that huge support and a chance to play in homeland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always loved to play in the US and US OPEN, but this is the first time someone is approaching the match this disrespectful way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latvian star Jelena Ostapenko has denied racism allegations following her fiery row with Taylor Townsend. She told her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[7307,811,22930,101,10578,118,56,54,55,7259],"class_list":{"0":"post-98446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-jannik-sinner","10":"tag-jelena-ostapenko","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-taylor-townsend","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98446","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=98446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}