Taylor Townsend: rising star of American tennis with atypical physics

With her extraordinary physics and generous form, Taylor Townsend is the rising star of American tennis. She is an American tennis player, born April 16, 1996 in Chicago, who won the Junior Australian Open in 2012 in the individual and doubles tournament. She has won three junior tournaments: the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. She receives the ITF junior world champion title.
Her qualities are heavy strikes and displacements full of fuels. In 2014, she participated in her first Grand Slam tournament at Roland Garros with a wild card. She is noticed by beating Alizé Cornet in the second round (6-4, 4-6, 6-4). She is ranked 172nd player in the world.
Despite her undeniable talents, she was involved in a controversy. She lost the support of the American Federation because of her weight, which is 80 kilograms for 170 centimeters. They threatened to stop helping her finance her trips, or to provide her with wild-card invitations for American tournaments, as long as she did not lose weight. At Flushing Meadows where the US Open is taking place, Taylor Townsend’s mother had to finance her daughter’s tournament herself.
Townsend explains:

 I’m not built like all these girls. They’re all skinny, they’re all, like, tall. I’m short and I’m built. I’m muscular. I can’t do anything about it. That’s how I’m built.”
It sucked because I didn’t know what they wanted. I was working my butt off. I didn’t know what else they wanted me to do. But now, I don’t care. People can talk and say whatever they want to say because I go out on the court every day and I bust my butt, and I know it doesn’t matter what other people think.”

Humiliated by her own federation, that did not disturb her, she became professional and reached the peaks of world tennis with her atypical physique. Thanks to her talent, she changes mentalities, which impose on athletes the diktats of thinness and demands more tolerance.

Everyone is built differently,” she said. “I do want to be an inspiration for other girls who are not built like these girls. Maria Sharapova has, like, the perfect figure. If I can inspire other people to say, ‘You don’t have to be a toothpick in order to be on billboards,’ then I will. But I also want to send a positive message to be confident in yourself and love yourself and love the skin you’re in because you can’t change it. »
So I think it’s just a matter of me accepting the fact that I’m different and I play differently and embracing it wholeheartedly. Doing it, but smart. “she explains.

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