{"id":115989,"date":"2025-08-28T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115989\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:09:08","slug":"us-open-2025-taylor-townsend-says-jelena-ostapenko-told-her-she-had-no-class-and-no-education-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115989\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2025: Taylor Townsend says Jelena Ostapenko told her she had ‘no class’ and ‘no education’ after loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

On-court microphones picked up 29-year-old Townsend telling Ostapenko to “take the L [loss]”.<\/p>\n

Townsend, the world number one doubles player, then whipped the crowd into a frenzy by celebrating with them wildly. <\/p>\n

Boos rang around Court 11 as Ostapenko departed.<\/p>\n

“There’s no beef,” added Townsend.<\/p>\n

“But I didn’t back down because you’re not going to insult me, especially after I carried myself a certain type of way, with nothing but respect.<\/p>\n

“If I show respect to you, I expect respect as well. That’s just the fact of the matter.”<\/p>\n

Ostapenko, 28, is well-known for allowing her frustrations to spill over and has previously received fines for unsportsmanlike conduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, she posted a message on Instagram accusing Townsend of being “very disrespectful”.<\/p>\n

“I told my opponent she didn’t say sorry [for the net cord], but her answer was that she doesn’t have to say sorry at all,” Ostapenko, who won the Roland Garros title in 2018, wrote.<\/p>\n

“There are some rules in tennis which most of the players follow and it was the first time ever that this has happened to me on tour.<\/p>\n

“If she plays in her homeland it doesn’t mean she can behave and do whatever she wants.”<\/p>\n

Townsend said she did not expect to receive an apology from Ostapenko.<\/p>\n

“Saying I have no education and no class, I don’t really take that personally, because I know that it’s so far from the truth,” Townsend said.<\/p>\n

“If I allow what other people have to say about me to affect me in that way, then they win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On-court microphones picked up 29-year-old Townsend telling Ostapenko to “take the L [loss]”. Townsend, the world number one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-115989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}