Tennis
U.S. Open
14m ago
LOUIS ARMSTRONG STADIUM — For most of the past week, Taylor Townsend had owned the the U.S. Open.
A point away from stretching that into the business end of her home Slam eight times, Townsend got so close in her attempt to knock off yet another Grand Slam champion and extend her rise into sporting and cultural stardom one more time. She fell in the cruelest way to Barbora Krejčíková, who kept her fingers on the edge of the cliff over and over and over to beat Townsend 1-6, 7-6(13) 6-4 to cut short Townsend’s wild ride into the second week in New York.
