In Shenzhen with the US team for the Bjk Cup, the double double n.1 has unleashed the wrath of social media: “ignorant”. Then the tennis player apologized
At the center of yet another social storm that invests female tennis there is new Taylor Townsend. The US, already finished in the spotlight for the dispute with Jelena Ostapeko in the second round of the US Open, returns to make people discuss, this time in a negative key. If then the social networks had defended him from the accusations of the Latvian to be “without class” and “not very educated”, today the American is instead in the eye of the cyclone. The reason? Some stories on Instagram in which he criticized the food served at the Gala dinner of the Billie Jean King Cup.
Townsend without brakes
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Townsend did not like some of the Chinese specialties served during the event, including sea cucumbers, turtle and bull frog. The American first published a video where, together with teammate Baptise, he observed the buffet confused. Focusing on the sea cucumbers, Townsend then asked: “But what the hell is it? This is the most absurd thing I’ve ever seen … and people eat it”. Not happy, the tennis player then returned to Instagram with a real review of the kitchen glassol: “I am honestly shocked by what I saw at the buffet. These people are literally killing frogs … aren’t they poisonous? They are not the ones that cause warts, boards and things like that? And the fact that they are all stewed with peppers, peppers and onions. Oh. 2 out of 10 “
apologies
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The words of the American have become viral on Weibo, a popular Chinese social social network: over 50 million views and avalanche convictions under the hashtag “American tennis player publicly insults Chinese food”. The controversy, however, was not confined to Asia. In the rest of the world there was no lack of calls to the words of Ostapenko after the US Open: “Ignorant and disrespectful, I am disappointed by her. Maybe Jelena was right”, many wrote. Overly from the criticisms, Townsend chose the way of the apologies: “I wanted to apologize sincerely from the deep of the heart. I lived an extraordinary experience and period here. There are no excuses for what I said. I will improve,” he said on Instagram.
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