{"id":120053,"date":"2025-08-30T04:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120053\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:49:08","slug":"taylor-townsend-upsets-no-5-mirra-andreeva-to-advance-to-us-open-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120053\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Townsend upsets No. 5 Mirra Andreeva to advance to US Open Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moments after she took down No. 5 Mirra Andreeva on Friday night at the Grandstand, Taylor Townsend kept things real about how she felt. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod damn this feels good,\u201d she told ESPN. <\/p>\n<p>Townsend stunned Andreeva in straight sets 7-5, 6-2. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.44632768;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/NYP082925USOPEN56JS.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor&#10;Townsend of the US hits a return to Mirra Andreeva during night six of the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Friday August 29, 2025\" class=\"wp-image-36975088\"  \/>TaylorTownsend of the US hits a return to Mirra Andreeva during night six of the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Friday August 29, 2025. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.84765625;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/NYP082925USOPEN52JS.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor&#10;Townsend of the US reacts during her match against Mirra Andreeva during night six of the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Friday August 29, 2025 \" class=\"wp-image-36975087\"  \/>Taylor Townsend of the US reacts during her match against Mirra Andreeva during night six of the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Friday August 29, 2025  JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p>The American has more work to do, as she faces Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 on Sunday in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time Townsend has reached this far in the U.S. Open since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moments after she took down No. 5 Mirra Andreeva on Friday night at the Grandstand, Taylor Townsend kept&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,24842,428,14687],"class_list":{"0":"post-120053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-taylor-townsend","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120053","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=120053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}