Friends who sing together win together. The day after his own historic victory at the Australian Open, Taylor Townsend could not help talking about Madison Keys.
After she and Katerina Siniakova survived Hsieh Su-Wei and Jelena Ostapenko in a female double final in three sets on Sunday, Townsend admitted that she was “almost in tears” after Keys eliminated Aryna Sabalenka Previous night. The native of Atlanta then detailed the long history of her and Keys as peers and friends, noting that she even spent nights in Keys, her teammate from the Billie Jean King Cup, and at the house of Bjorn Fratangelo in Lake Nona, Florida, when she trained at the Usta. National campus in Orlando.
“I spent every weekend at Madison. I spent the night at her home several times, “said Townsend, even joking:” She made me discover country music and made me cross a country phase. »»
“I can’t even express how happy I am for her,” continued the left -hander. “You know, the first is still as great, and it’s like a kind of relief. She was close before, and I can attest to this double feeling … Overcoming the bump is overcoming the bump whatever happens. »»
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