{"id":123646,"date":"2025-08-31T23:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/123646\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:14:13","slug":"taylor-townsends-us-open-run-comes-to-crashing-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/123646\/","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 loss to Barbora Krejcikova on Sunday evening, blowing a one-set lead and eight match points inside a jam-packed Louis Armstrong Stadium.<\/p>\n

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

After a viral 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

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

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<\/p>\n

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

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

There was 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.<\/p>\n

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

But 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

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

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 grinded out the final game to victory.<\/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":123647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,99,24842,428,21,19,22,20,25,14687,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-123646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-taylor-townsend","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-open-tennis","19":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123646","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=123646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}