US Open star screams ‘hit me, hit me’ mid-point and escapes punishment
Taylor Townsend was not punished for yelling “hit me, hit me” throughout a US Open combined doubles match On Sunday. Townsend was partnered with Ben Shelton towards opponents Joe Salisbury and Luisa Stefani.
Townsend’s weird outburst was directed in the direction of Salisbury, with followers of the game believing the pair to be associates following the infraction. While punishment was not sanctioned for her actions, yelling throughout a tennis match remains to be a hindrance warning.
The alternate occurred throughout the second set, amid a back-and-forth battle between the 2 pairs. Stefani sliced the ball drawing Shelton into no man’s land. He returned her shot with a weak lob.
Stefani returned with a mushy smash main Townsend to rapidly react. Her return, like Shelton’s earlier than her, was weak and allowed for both Stefani or Salisbury to execute a successful smash. However, whereas the ball was within the air, the 27-year-old yelled “Hit me! Hit me!” to her opponents, with the London native Salisbury returning the lob with an explosive winner regardless of Shelton’s best-scrambling makes an attempt.
As Townsend screamed to be hit by the ball, the umpire watching the match appeared visibly irritated, leaning again into his chair. He rapidly glanced within the American’s course however provided no punishments.
During a tennis match, officers can penalise gamers for yelling and calling a hindrance towards their opponent. Loud noises, akin to grunting, can distract gamers on close by courts.
Townsend and Shelton received the match, advancing to the Round of 16 towards Rohan Bopanna of India and Aldila Sutjiadi from Indonesia. And there was no time to rejoice because the match occurred instantly after on the Grandstand courtroom – which in addition they received 6-2, 7-5.
Townsend is ranked No. 132 in singles and No. 5 in doubles, in keeping with the WTA Tennis rankings. However, she lately shared that whereas she enjoys dominating with a accomplice, her singles profession needs to be remembered.
The 27-year-old was eradicated from the ladies’s singles competitors after falling to Czech participant Karolína Muchova within the third spherical. Her street to a US Open championship remains to be alive via combined doubles with Shelton and ladies’s doubles alongside her Canadian accomplice, Leylah Annie Fernandez.
“Every tournament I played, I played singles and doubles. I have always done this in my career because doubles has always helped me in my singles,” Townsend explained after her final ladies’s combined doubles win.
“But the opportunities and the consistent going to the second week, going deep into these events, going deep into the Slams, being the last one standing—whether it is singles or whether it’s doubles—it gives you that feeling.”
Townsend and Fernandez superior to the quarterfinals of ladies’s doubles after defeating Karolina Pliskova and Donna Vekic within the Round of 16. In the quarterfinals, they may face the winners of the Sept. 4 matchup between Czech gamers Barbora Strycova and Marketa Vondrousova towards New Zealand participant Erin Routliffe and her Canadian teammate Gabriela Dabrowski.