(Taylor Townsend – French Open Day 4.
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If you aren’t a major sports enthusiast, the first time you heard of Taylor Townsend was most likely when she became a topic of controversy and blog fodder. The now 18 year old, made headlines in 2012 after news broke that she was asked by the USTA to sit out of the 2012 U.S. Open Junior Tournament due to her weight. Naturally, this news brought out the body-police and the armchair biologists who all deduced that she needed to be thinner to be a tennis star.
Fast-forward to 2014, and Townsend has been kicking ass and taking names at the French Open. Just yesterday, she advanced to the third round at the storied tennis tournament. When asked about her recent win, the tennis star simply stated: “The sky is the limit!”