1. Taylor Townsend was born on April 16,1996 and is an American professional tennis player.
54 Facts About Taylor Townsend
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Taylor Townsend has been ranked as high as world No 2 in doubles on 24 February 2025 and No 46 in singles on 19 August 2024, by the WTA.
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Taylor Townsend turned professional by the end of 2012 and in 2014, she broke through on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour after winning two titles.
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Taylor Townsend's achievements ensured her top 100 singles debut in 2015.
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Taylor Townsend first entered the top 100 in doubles in 2016, after winning eight of ten finals reached on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour that year.
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Taylor Townsend was born in Chicago to Gary and Sheila.
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Taylor Townsend's parents are both high school administrators, and her mother used to work as a banker.
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Taylor Townsend started playing tennis at the age of six, and was one of the first junior players to participate in the XS Tennis program run by Kamau Murray.
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When Taylor Townsend was eight years old, she moved to Atlanta to continue training with Donald Young's father.
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Taylor Townsend's mother is a close friend of Donald Young Sr.
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At age 14, Taylor Townsend moved to Boca Raton, Florida, to join the USTA development program.
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Taylor Townsend tries to model her game after her tennis idol, Martina Navratilova.
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On October 14,2020, Taylor Townsend announced via social media that she was pregnant.
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Taylor Townsend gave birth to her son, Adyn Aubrey, on March 14,2021.
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Taylor Townsend won the 2012 Australian Open singles junior tournament at the age of 15 to become only the second American to ever win that title after Kim Kessaris in 1989.
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Taylor Townsend won the doubles title at the same event to become first American to win both the singles and doubles titles at a junior Grand Slam event since Lindsay Davenport accomplished the feat at the 1992 US Open.
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Taylor Townsend continued her major success in doubles that year by winning the Wimbledon girls' doubles title with Eugenie Bouchard and the US Open title with Gabrielle Andrews, with whom she partnered at the Australian Open.
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The only major that eluded Taylor Townsend was the French Open, where she lost in the semifinals while partnering with Bouchard.
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Taylor Townsend finished the season as the No 1 ranked junior in the world, for which she was named the 2012 ITF Junior World Champion.
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Taylor Townsend became the first American girl to hold this honor since Gretchen Rush in 1982.
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Taylor Townsend continued to play on the junior tour in 2013 and reached another Grand Slam singles final at Wimbledon, this time losing to Belinda Bencic.
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Taylor Townsend competed in the USTA Junior National Championship as the No 4 seed and was knocked out in the semifinals by No 2, Allie Kiick.
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Taylor Townsend entered her first professional-level tournament in October 2010 at the age of 14 and was able to win her first career match.
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Taylor Townsend played in the doubles event at the 2011 US Open when she was 15 years old and reached the third round with her compatriot Jessica Pegula.
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Taylor Townsend received a wildcard into the singles qualifying draw and defeated world No 122, Arantxa Parra Santonja, in the first round.
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Taylor Townsend made her WTA Tour debut in singles at the Indian Wells Open where she defeated Lucie Hradecka for her first tour-level match win.
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In back-to-back weeks in the spring, Taylor Townsend played at two clay-court events on the USTA pro circuit at Charlottesville and Indian Harbour Beach.
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Taylor Townsend won both the singles and doubles titles at each of these events, her first such ITF titles.
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Taylor Townsend partnered with Asia Muhammad in doubles at both tournaments.
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Taylor Townsend defeated fellow American No 65, Vania King, and upset the top-ranked French woman, world No 21 Alize Cornet, to advance to the third round, in which she lost to No 15, Carla Suarez Navarro.
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Taylor Townsend received wildcards to make her main-draw debuts at the last two major events of the year, Wimbledon and the US Open, but lost in the first round at each tournament.
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Taylor Townsend broke into the top 100 at the very start of the season, after reaching the second round at the Auckland Open.
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Taylor Townsend finished the year ranked outside of the top 300.
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Taylor Townsend finished the season with eight ITF doubles titles to reach a year-end doubles ranking of No 73.
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Up until the very end of the year, Taylor Townsend maintained her ranking just outside of the top 100.
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Taylor Townsend reached the third round of the Miami Open as a qualifier, her best result at a Premier tier tournament to date.
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Taylor Townsend produced another solid performance at a premier tournament in August, making it to the second round at the 2017 Cincinnati Open after needing to qualify for the main draw.
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Taylor Townsend ended up winning this $80k event for the biggest title of her career.
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Taylor Townsend reached the semifinals at two out of the four events and won the title at the other two tournaments, both of which were $80k events.
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Taylor Townsend easily won the French Open Wild Card Challenge for the third time in her career.
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Taylor Townsend played for the Philadelphia Freedoms in the World TeamTennis league, where she was awarded the season's Female MVP.
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At the 2019 US Open, Taylor Townsend achieved her first victory against a top-10 player, upsetting world No 4, Simona Halep, in a third-set tiebreaker in the second round.
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Taylor Townsend went one step further, defeating another Romanian, Sorana Cirstea, to reach the fourth round for the first time in her career at a major event and as a qualifier.
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At the French Open, Taylor Townsend reached the semifinals for the first time in her career at this major, with Madison Keys as a protected ranking pair on their debut.
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Taylor Townsend used her protected ranking to participate in the main draw in singles, after coming back from maternity leave.
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In doubles, Taylor Townsend started 2023 with her second and third titles on the WTA Tour by winning both editions of the Adelaide International, partnering Asia Muhammad at the Adelaide 1 and Luisa Stefani at the Adelaide 2.
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Taylor Townsend entered the top 10 at world No 6, after reaching the semifinals with Fernandez at the Madrid Open.
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In doubles in Cincinnati, Taylor Townsend paired with Alycia Parks for the first time.
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Taylor Townsend reached her third major doubles final at the Wimbledon Championships with Katerina Siniakova.
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Taylor Townsend was the first lucky loser to reach a WTA 1000 quarterfinal since the introduction of the format in 2009, getting into the main draw as an injury replacement.
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Taylor Townsend has played six seasons with World TeamTennis, making her debut in 2013 with the Sacramento Capitals.
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Taylor Townsend has since played for the Philadelphia Freedoms from 2014 to 2019, even earning the 2018 WTT Female MVP honor by having the top winning percentage in women's singles and women's doubles for the season.
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Taylor Townsend paired up with Fabrice Martin in mixed doubles and Caroline Dolehide and Sofia Kenin in women's doubles throughout the 2020 season.
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Taylor Townsend was asked by the USTA to sit out of the 2012 US Open Junior tournament because of her weight and denied her request for a wild card for the US Open main-draw or the qualifying tournament, which she had received the year before.