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.
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.”