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Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got in a heated interaction after their second round match at the US Open.
Twitter / X / ESPN ^ | August 27, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 08/29/2025 5:21:17 AM PDT by Red Badger

Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got in a heated interaction after their second round match at the US Open.

Townsend is on to the third round.

0:58 VIDEO AT LINK....................

CFP:

Taylor Townsend opponent loses her cool at U.S. Open — Here’s the video. You can lip read and hear the ending.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Society; Sports; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: jelenaostapenko; racecard; sports; sportswomanship; taylortownsend; tennis; usopen

1 posted on 08/29/2025 5:21:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I don’t remember tennis players being that fat


2 posted on 08/29/2025 5:25:10 AM PDT by struggle
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To: struggle

I was thinking the same thing.......


3 posted on 08/29/2025 5:25:59 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: struggle

I don’t remember tennis players being that animated.....................


4 posted on 08/29/2025 5:26:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

One of them called the other low class
The other fought back proving…something

Nasty

I don’t know if this is free publicity for the open or the opposite


5 posted on 08/29/2025 5:30:52 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: stanne

The further demeaning of sports to the lowest common denominator......................


6 posted on 08/29/2025 5:31:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Jelena Ostapenko should have just walked away after the hand shakes. See Barry Sanders. BE Barry Sanders.


7 posted on 08/29/2025 5:36:59 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: Red Badger

What drives low class people crazy is chin up, walk away, class. Not an opportunity for them to fight, win, bring you into their low class world


8 posted on 08/29/2025 5:49:58 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Red Badger

You can take the gal out of the ghetto but...


9 posted on 08/29/2025 5:50:23 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I side with Townsend. Ostapenko should have shaken hands and walked away. Ostapenko was miffed because Townsend didn’t acknowledge her “luckiness” because a ball dropped over on a net shot. Wow. Then some language terms got into it. And more escalation.


10 posted on 08/29/2025 5:52:54 AM PDT by stateofit
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To: stateofit

I sided with Townsend, too. But then, she had to bring race into it, of course.

“I’m sorry to say, because sometimes, I feel like in society, especially people of color, we are expected to be silenced, or sometimes there are times where we have to decide and be very strategic as to when we speak up. In these types of moments, it’s important for me to speak up, not only for myself, but for my culture.”


11 posted on 08/29/2025 5:59:46 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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I agree she should n9t have brought color into her statements. Blacks need to distance ethenselves from their culture. They can start by not always bringing it up. How often did tom brady bring up hes white and has to overcome so many blacks on the field? Or has to support his culture?

If your culture is anything but a crutch, why do t you move to someplace you dont need to use that crutch, where your culture is the same as everyone elses?

12 posted on 08/29/2025 6:35:09 AM PDT by Ikeon (As a white kid in the u.s.I was taught to do what i was told, WTH were black kids told? )
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To: struggle

They both BIG GIRLS...remind me of football players


13 posted on 08/29/2025 7:21:49 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Demo rats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: Red Badger

Townsend goes on to do a chimp out after the argument, like she scored a touchdown.


14 posted on 08/29/2025 7:36:48 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: Red Badger

It’s just two competitors, where neither of them like to lose. This is normal. No big deal.

Remember when John McEnroe would play Jimmy Connors? They would loudly yell and argue every single point. They would get down and dirty, truly nasty, even yelling at the umpire and ball boys.

The fans loved it.


15 posted on 08/29/2025 7:36:51 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Remember when John McEnroe would play Jimmy Connors? They would loudly yell and argue every single point. They would get down and dirty, truly nasty, even yelling at the umpire and ball boys. The fans loved it.

McEnroe and Chris Evers did a lot to make tennis fun to watch.

16 posted on 08/29/2025 7:41:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

I watched it. Heat of the moment. It happens. Next day at practice they were both all smiles.


17 posted on 08/29/2025 7:43:19 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: woweeitsme

That’s not a bad reply if she took “uneducated” as a slur. Again there’s some word use confusion from what the Latvian meant and what was interpreted.

Interesting back history

https://www.si.com/tennis/2012/09/07/taylor-townsend-usta-controversy


18 posted on 08/29/2025 8:24:40 AM PDT by stateofit
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