Taylor Townsend Biography
Taylor Townsend is an American professional tennis player. She reached a career best Women’s Tennis Association ranking of No. 61 in the world in July 2018.
She was named the ITF Junior World Champion in 2012 for finishing the year No. 1 in the girls’ junior rankings, making her the first American to do so since 1982. In that year, she won the junior Australian Open titles in both singles and doubles, and three out of the four junior grand slam doubles titles in total.
Taylor Townsend Age
Taylor Townsend was conceived in Chicago, Illinois on April 16, 1996. She is currently 23 years old as of 2019.
Taylor Townsend Early Life
Taylor Townsend was born in Chicago to Gary and Sheila Townsend. Her parents are both high school administrators, and her mother used to work as a banker. Sheila played Division II tennis at Lincoln University in Missouri. Taylor also has an older sister Symone who played college tennis at Florida A&M.
Taylor Townsend started playing tennis at the age of six, and was one of the first junior players to participate in the XS Tennis program run by Kamau Murray. Murray is better known for coaching Sloane Stephens to a grand slam title.Townsend moved to Boca Raton, Florida to join the USTA development program. When the USTA decided not to fund Townsend’s expenses to compete at the 2012 US Open, Murray and XS Tennis organized a fundraiser to cover nearly $1000 of the cost of the trip.
Taylor Townsend Relationship
Taylor Townsend prefers living a low key personal life, there is no information regarding his past and present relationship,but once we get any information regarding this will update it.
Taylor Townsend Career
Junior Career
Taylor Townsend won the 2012 Australian Open junior grand slam at the age of 15 to become only the second American to ever win that title after Kim Kessaris in 1989. Taylor Townsend also won the doubles title at the same event to become first American to win both the singles and doubles titles at a junior grand slam event since Lindsay Davenport accomplished the feat at the 1992 US Open. A few months later, Townsend won the Easter Bowl to help complete her rise to No. 1 in the ITF junior rankings before the end of April.
Taylor Townsend finished the season as the No. 1 ranked junior in the world, for which she was named the 2012 ITF Junior World Champion. She became the first American girl to hold this honor since Gretchen Rush in 1982.Townsend continued to play on the junior tour in 2013 and reached another grand slam singles final at Wimbledon, this time losing to Belinda Bencic. She also competed in the USTA Junior National Championship as the No. 4 seed and was knocked out in the semifinals by No. 2 Allie Kiick.
Professional career
Taylor Townsend entered her first professional-level tournament in October 2010 at the age of 14 and was able to win her first career match. She also played in the doubles event at the 2011 US Open when she was 15 years old and reached the third round with her compatriot Jessica Pegula.
Taylor Townsend also received a wild card into the singles qualifying draw and defeated world No. 122 Arantxa Parra Santonja in the first round. The following year, Townsend requested another wild card into the 2012 US Open and was declined due to the USTA’s concerns about Townsend’s fitness. The USTA received widespread criticism for this decision.
Taylor Townsend made her WTA Tour debut in singles at the 2013 Indian Wells Masters, where she defeated Lucie Hradecká for her first tour-level match win. Her next WTA main draw appearance came at the 2013 Citi Open. Although Townsend lost in singles, she also competed in the doubles event with Genie Bouchard, her doubles partner from their Wimbledon girls’ doubles title the previous summer. The duo made it all the way to the final, the first career WTA final for either player.
Taylor Townsend Ranking
2018 Career Ranking
In the spring, Townsend delivered an exemplary performance during the American ITF clay court season. Taylor Townsend reached the semifinals at two out of the four events (Indian Harbour Beach and Charlottesville) and won the title at the other two tournaments (Dothan and Charleston), both of which were ITF $80K events. Taylor Townsend also easily won the French Open Wild Card Challenge for the third time in her career. At the end of this stretch of events, Townsend reached a career-high ranking of No. 73 in the world.
Taylor Townsend played for the Philadelphia Freedoms in the World TeamTennis league, where she was awarded the season’s Female MVP.The team lost in the WTT Finals.
Taylor Townsend Net Worth
Taylor Townsend earned a total of $883,598 from competition according to Wikipedia, but that’s not all of Townsend’s earnings, which may include sponsorships, businesses, and promotions. Our estimate for Taylor Townsend’s net worth in 2019 is above or slightly 2 Million Dollars.
Taylor Townsend US Open Controversy
Taylor Townsend was asked by the USTA to sit out of the 2012 US Open Junior tournament due to her weight and also denied her request for a wild card for the US Open main draw or the qualifying tournament, which she had received the year before.Patrick McEnroe stated, “Our concern is her long-term health, number one, and her long-term development as a player. We have one goal in mind: For her to be playing in Arthur Ashe Stadium in the main draw and competing for major titles when it’s time.” Townsend was shocked by the USTA’s decision given the fact that she was the top-ranked junior girl in the world.
The decision was sharply criticized by players like Lindsay Davenport and Martina Navratilova. Sports Illustrated wrote, “Instead of helping a promising young talent gain that confidence and experience gleaned from competing, the USTA has taken a paternalistic tack, deeming itself the arbiter and architect behind Townsend’s past, present and future success. It’s the arrogance of institution built on the belief that there is a tried-and-true formula to build a champion.”
The USTA at first refused to pay for Taylor Townsend’s expenses, so Taylor Townsend entered the tournament by paying on her own and was defeated in the quarterfinals by Anett Kontaveit in straight sets. Later, they agreed to pay for Townsend’s expenses as Patrick McEnroe spoke of a miscommunication. Still, the USTA decision cost Townsend an opportunity to compete for a wild card to enter the main draw of the US Open.
Following the controversy, Townsend split from her USTA coaches and began training with former world No. 4, Olympic doubles gold medalist, and 1990 Wimbledon finalist Zina Garrison, who continued to coach her until 2015
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