Opponent threatened
Eklat at US Open: “No upbringing”
28.08.2025 – 03:53 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The US Open is high after the two-round match. The Latvian loser has a clear need for conversation.
Taylor Townsend and Jeļena Ostapenko will not become too close friends promptly. After their second-round duel at the US Open in New York, the two tennis mass teamed together. On the net, the Latvian loser Ostapenko pamped her US board with an extended index finger highly excited-including a hearty threat.
“She told me that I have no great and no education. And that I should wait and see what happens when we are outside the USA. But I’m looking forward to that,” said Townsend in an interview with the TV station ESPN: “This is a competition. Some people get angry when they lose. Some say bad things.”
Townsend (29), twice Grand Slam winner in doubles and in individual only on world ranking place 139, previously prevailed in a heated match 7: 5, 6: 1 against the French Open winner from 2017. Ostapenko is notorious because of her temperament – not for no reason how to experience.
She later explained what Ostapenko had brought up to the palm in a longer Instagram contribution. “My opponent behaved very disrespectfully when she didn’t say Sorry in a very decisive phase.
In addition, the rules did not stick to the rules when they warm up because it quickly passed into volley. Townsend used these disrespect in front of their home audience. “Unfortunately I come from a small country, so I lack this support,” wrote Ostapenko.
When she was asked about this presentation in the press conference, Townsend simply said: “Oh. Wow.”
The Russian tennis professional Daniil Medvedev is also known for his freaking out. At the US Open, after a scandal in the first round match against the Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi, he was finished with a fine of $ 42,500. Medvedev has to pay $ 30,000 (just under 26,000 euros) for unsportsmanlike behavior, as the organizers of the Grand Slam tournament in New York announced. In addition, there are $ 12,500 because he smashed his racket after the end of the match. In total, this corresponds to more than a third of the prize money of $ 110,000, which Medvedev received for the first round.