US Open foes Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko get into a tense back-and-forth after match

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.”

A reporter asked Townsend, who is Black, whether she thought there were racial undertones to those comments.