US Open Foes Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko Get Into a Tense Back-and-Forth After Match

Alex de Minaur, of Australia, top in black, serves to Christopher O'Connell, of Australia, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, on Aug. 26, 2025, in New York. Frank Franklin II/AP Photo

NEW YORK—U.S. Open opponents Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got into a face-to-face argument on the Court 11 sideline right after Townsend won their second-round match 7-5, 6-1 on Wednesday.

Townsend, an American who is ranked No. 1 in doubles, said Ostapenko, a Latvian, who won the 2017 French Open, told her she has “no class” and “no education.”