Taylor Townsend Holds Her Ground | The American Spectator

Playing in a second-round match at the U.S. Open against Jelena Ostapenko, Taylor Townsend benefited from a bit of luck in the first set. On serve in the 11th game, she hit a ball that clipped the net and took an unreachable bounce, giving her the point.
Such lucky breaks are pretty evenly distributed, so you cannot say it was a big deal. And  no one was giving the match to Miss Ostapenko, who looked off her game from the start: Taylor Townsend was clearly in control and the match ended 7-5, 6-1. However, the custom is to say sorry in such moments, and Miss Townsend, who is in fact one of the nicest and best-natured players on the tour, did not say anything, so intent, one must presume, was she to get back to the baseline, serve, and finish the game.
You come to expect on-court drama at the U.S. Open, which this year is once again beating all records for attendance despite also beating all records for ticket prices.
Miss Ostapenko could have just taken Mother Mary’s advice and let it be, but at the conclusion of the match, when opponents come to the net to shake hands and congratulate each other, whether or not they mean it, she scolded Miss Taylor, said she had no class or education and maybe she thought because she was on home ground she could do as she pleased. Even in the coarse times we live in, this was a bit over the top.  And fans can be as bad as players, worse in fact.
Apart from making too much noise and moving around during play, you see them behaving like louts, not to mention smoking dope. The New York Post noticed and reported a fan grabbing a cap that a winning player was handing to a kid who asked for a souvenir, and he had the nerve to dash away with it, the cad. The player, Kamil Majchrzak, who is from Poland, later found the disconsolate little boy and gave him another cap. The cad is still on the loose, but the New York Post, you may be sure (full disclosure: I worked there in days of yore), will track him down.
Miss Townsend was taken aback and…