Thirteen years after the organizers refused to grant her a wild card, September Taylor Townsend at the US Open Grand Slam. A player who repeatedly testified how the American tennis association cut her support allegedly because of skin color and body proportions, becomes a heroine of America. The conflict with Latvian Jelena Ostapenko also contributed to this.
“It’s bigger than me,” reports a nine -year -old native of Chicago. And he’s right.
After the incident with Ostapenko, almost anyone who means something for American tennis and its history.
At first, Townsend refused to feel a racist overtone in Latvians.
“I didn’t see it that way. But the truth is that the stigma of the ignorance of the black community exists, even though it is far from the truth. If it was racial or not, you have to ask her,” Townsend said.
Recall that Ostapenko shouted on the American after the match: “You have no level, no education.”
Townsend did not apologize for the intervention of the tape that changed the trajectory of the ball during one of the exchanges. Tennis players apologize for the so -called “piggy”.
The subsequent explanation of the Latvian tennis player is no longer very suitable in America. Due to his imperfect English, he said he did not mean education by education, but rather a kind of unwritten tennis etiquette.
The wheels have already spinned Az Townsend is surprisingly one of the greatest personalities of the tournament.
“All I can say is: Welcome to this show,” she reported twenty thousand enthusiastic fans at the Arthur Ashe stadium when she shocked Russian superstar Mirra Andreev in the 3rd round.
But in the end she said, “I feel great. I’m really proud. Thank you all who supported me over the last 48 hours. It’s bigger than me. It’s about a message, it’s about representation. It’s about being courageous and standing for yourself.
In the last matches he has been in gaming clothing, which is inspired by the story of the mythical Phoenix. Townsend suggested it herself, she is strongly symbolic for her.
“The Phoenix is a fancy creature, but his premise is that you have to burn or lose your old self to rise as something new. I feel that it testifies to my career, about me as a man, about me as a woman, a player,” said a tennis player.
The doubles partner Kateřina Siniaková, with whom she won last year’s Wimbledon and this year’s Australian Open, is experiencing one of the life tournaments. In the eight -finals of the US Open, however, once, six years ago, when it became famous from the qualification.
Now, however, after the conflict and the subsequent giant wave of reactions, it is charged with special energy. In three rounds she did not lose even the set, her strikes are unprecedented.
On Sunday, Louis Armstrong will have a frenetic support again, but the opponent will be the Czech and double Grand Slam winner Barbora Krejčíková.
The match to advance to the US Open quarterfinals will be watching Aktualne.cz in an online report.
