Taylor Townsend (tennis)
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| Country (sports) |
 United States |
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| Residence | Boca Raton, Florida |
| Born |
April 16, 1996 Chicago, Illinois |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Turned pro | December 2012 |
| Plays | Left-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$472,280 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 67–56 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 3 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 94 (16 February 2015) |
| Current ranking | No. 111 (20 March 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2015) |
| French Open | 3R (2014) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2014) |
| US Open | 1R (2014, 2016) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 52–28 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 14 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 75 (31 October 2016) |
| Current ranking | No. 75 (31 October 2016) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2017) |
| US Open | QF (2016) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| US Open | SF (2014) |
| Team competitions | |
| Fed Cup | 1–0 |
| Last updated on: 8 February 2016. | |
Taylor Townsend (born April 16, 1996) is an American professional tennis player and the 2012 Australian Open girls' singles champion. She is the first American to hold the no. 1 year-end world ranking for junior girls since Gretchen Rush in 1982.
Townsend competed in the 2013 Citi Open, playing in the main draw in doubles for the first time. She reached the finals with partner Canadian Eugenie Bouchard.
Townsend won her first ITF title in Charlottesville, defeating Montserrat González in the final. Together with Asia Muhammad she also won doubles competition at the same tournament. Just a week later she won her second ITF title in Indian Harbour Beach, her opponent in the final this time was Yulia Putintseva. She again also won the doubles competition there.
Townsend won the USTA wild card entry into the French Open, where she made her Grand Slam singles debut ranked no. 205 in the world. In the first round, she defeated fellow American world no. 65 Vania King, and then upset twentieth seed and no. 1 Frenchwoman Alizé Cornet in the second round to become the first American woman to advance to the third round. Townsend then lost to fourteenth seed Carla Suárez Navarro in straight sets.
Townsend was asked by the USTA to sit out of the 2012 U.S Open Junior tournament due to her weight and also denied her request for a wild card for the U.S. 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.
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