Taylor Townsend vs. Simona Halep | 2019 Miami Open Second Round | WTA Highlights

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[@DustyRogerGaming]

Who is here after Townsend beat Halep in 2019 US Open?

[@crangfang4783]

Shinobu Tsurubushi lol

[@bbogdanmircea]

I like the aggressive Simona. Hopefully she can have a good run here now that Dobre is helping her.

[@joshuaallen7826]

Simona is a spectacular tennis player and great to watch. Townsend is very young, I hope she continues to work hard & have great results in the majors so we can see more of her. Plenty of time to learn & get better!

[@precessionoftheequinoxes3224]

Good practice match for Halep.

[@adelopez27]

Precession Of The Equinoxes too bad she didn’t use that practice to win the whole tournament ☠️

[@precessionoftheequinoxes3224]

@@adelopez27 I agree 100&. She starts off well but gets stopped around the quarters. I'm eager to see how she deals in the change in surface. Clay is her better surface.

[@bradychick6535]

That was then.Bye Halep! Townsend just knocked her out of the 2019 US Open! Congrats Taylor! It was epic😁👍✌

[@adrianbrown1492]

@@bradychick6535 Bye Williams Simona won Wimbledon!

[@bradychick6535]

@@adrianbrown1492 Call me when she win 23 Majors( That's what I thought)

[@alepaidiel7428]

That thumbnail tho lmaoooo why y'all had to do Townsend dirty

[@kitaek70]

Stop fat shaming the poor girl, she made it through qualifiers and won her first round match in a premier tourney before losing to World #2.

[@kriskanei7369]

40 Love thank you!!

[@crissalazar1571]

Thank you for saying this! It's so disgusting the things people are saying on here. Just pathetic

[@starsdoyoulikethem]

40 Love it’s not called fat shaming; it’s called critiquing her fitness levels

[@tloukgaugelo2635]

Fat is fat is fat. Why do we like sugar coating obvious things? She is a talented young woman who could go far if only she could invest her time in physical fitness. Tennis is about 90% fitness and 10% raw talent if not more. It's not body shaming just fact. You wanna be fat like me stop playing and come join me on my sofa lets binge watch friends

[@johnbrown-um3lf]

@@crissalazar1571 THIS IS THE PROBLEM !!! YEARS AGO WHEN SHE WAS A JUNIOR SHE WAS TOLD TO LOSE WEIGHT AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT HER FITNESS !!! HER MOTHER TOOK OFFENCE TO THE ADVICE OF THE OFFICIAL AND NOW SHE AIN'T WINNING NOTHING !!!!! ***************IT'S NOT FAT SHAMING YOU HAVE GOT TO BE HARD ON YOURSELF TO WIN MATCHES !!!! THE WILLIAMS SISTERS AND HALEP AND NAOMI ASAKA ARE VERY HARD ON THEMSELVES

[@estherbuesoavila6694]

I love Halep!! She's great

[@graycaston3541]

I wish ATP highlight reels were as organized as WTA!

[@kukulroukul4698]

ATP has less pasionate viwers they should be payed less

[@danieln1]

Taylor is a talent... she still can achieve much more

[@rporther]

Not about the scales here. From just an offhand glimpse, appears Team Townsend has reduced mass. The potency of her game this evening however did not have its sting. A lefty should be able to produce more trouble for any player. Keep on going....you'll get there.

[@bradychick6535]

Taylor Townsend just knocked Halep out of the US Open 2019! Congrats Taylor!

[@TheDjed19]

Heart beat TAYLOR TOWNSEND WITH THE UPSET 🇺🇸 She’s the first American woman to knock off the reigning Wimbledon champ at the @USOpen since Serena in 2008. pic.twitter.com/rC641HE7lt - espnW (@espnW) August 29, 2019

[@Elizopoulo]

Heart beat So she shouldn't go to the net just to please you! She was excellent and her service too. Just like many players these days prefer to play from the baseline she prefered to play on the net! Is the same.....

[@gurudevelpr]

Rookie, Welcome To The WTA!

[@mirelaudrea8633]

Felicitari, Simona!👏👏👏

[@ninadsamant6275]

Townsend not playing at the best level..she rarely wins matches nowadays

[@95chanz]

Ninad Samant I don’t get her game style. Why throw in so much topspin when it doesn’t reduce her errors for the slightest? It just gives opponents time to cover and couldn’t put her power to good use, What a waste

[@ricoshaye5745]

Can the Town send a better player please 😃

[@cosminciornei7049]

@@ricoshaye5745 😂😂😂

[@thangvuong9196]

When is Taylor going to take her career seriously and get in shape, she has the talent to be so much higher ranked.

Would you tell lindsay davenport the same thing?

[@thangvuong9196]

@ lindsay lost 40lbs in the prime of her career.

[@chrisak49]

ach nix Lindsay didn’t have a beer gut

[@trob9057]

Her coach isn’t exactly setting a good example either

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

@ LD was called dump truck until she lost 40lbs when she switched to a new coach

[@jorgeguisa7920]

I love Towsend game, but somehow she just hasnt achieve the basic rally consistency or the righ amount of savyness about her own game and how to better use it, hopefully she does because she has a very watchable and enjoyable game.

[@olajumokeadako8799]

She just won Simona and i am so happy for her

[@cagayandeoro5882]

Yehey! nice one Simona. Good Luck.

[@andreabryan9710]

Never heard about Townsend. Halep is powerful!

[@bradychick6535]

Everyone will know her name now.Townsend just bounced Halep from the 2019 US Open! Congrats Taylor✌

[@sofimunoz7869]

SimWONa Halep . . . . 💪 . . . . great 😎

[@pukulu]

Townsend is not built for the retrieving game but she tried to play that way most of the time, with predictable results against a steady, precise groundstroker like Halep.

[@pierremartin9521]

Sure Elle est en forme La Louve de Roumanie Good Luck for Roland Garros You are the best Simona

[@dianefinn9730]

U are ugly racist person very sad. Yes for tennis she certainly needs to be fitter but not body shame u haters.

[@neilmodino9284]

Townsend has a potential. She just needs to focus on fitness. It seems like she has a hard time moving around the court. Footwork and fitness are keys into improving tennis game. If she lost more weight and continue to get leaner she would feel more comfortable in moving around the court and she can dictate the point harder. A little bit more work can truly make her game worthy. She has the shots but lack the movement. Last of all footwork flat footed makes it difficult to retrieve balls. If she can work on footwork she can make a difference in her game and more control on her singles match. Townsend has potential.

[@springfield03sniper]

Neil Modino she had a very non WTA game for a while, using a lot of slices and serve and volley. Now I don’t know what changed, but she could have junk balled her way to a closer match against Halep.

[@neilmodino9284]

@@springfield03sniper I think she needs a coach that would focus on her fitness and mental toughness. I think she has a hard time moving around.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

her mother feeds her and defends her weight...not helpful eh....

[@D...M...A...]

SI..MON..A...

[@---sq8xr]

Hopefully Townsend will start a much more rigorous training regiment during the later half of this year into Q2 2020 - it'll do wonders and she'll hopefully coke back better.

[@jaredwagner9056]

where y’all haters at now?? that’s fucking right! Go Taylor

[@AA-qn1ep]

سيمونا هليب،،، الجمال يمكن ان يحمل مضرب 🎾،، وان يلعب باحترافية منقطعة النظير،، سيمونا الجملية انتمني لك التوفيق

[@adriancalcan6984]

Bravo Simona, tot inainte

[@JordanjamesX]

No one is fat shaming Taylor people are disappointed she is wasting her talent. Taylor movement would improve with a weight loss. She just does not seem serious about tennis. Being obese is bad.

[@Nycgoomba]

Did you really feel that the word "obese" was appropriate though? She's lost plenty of weight since the beginning of her career, but I think she's just naturally heavier.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

@@Nycgoomba i doubt that...if u want to do professional sports you have to get to professional weight n fitness levels, law of physics....

[@EmilieSagae]

Can Townsend not try to attack a bit more? Does she really think with her technique and size she can outlast someone like Halep in long rallies?

[@TheDjed19]

Tommeke Van Hoof TAYLOR TOWNSEND WITH THE UPSET 🇺🇸 She’s the first American woman to knock off the reigning Wimbledon champ at the @USOpen since Serena in 2008. pic.twitter.com/rC641HE7lt - espnW (@espnW) August 29, 2019

[@ultraness]

@Tommeke Van Hoof Did you post this from the future after Townsend used serve and volley to beat Halep in the US Open?

[@fan.Chelsea_kg]

Simona 😍😍😗😗😗

[@lilydog1000]

An easy one Simona !!

[@elenabeza9569]

Bravo halep

[@liv.vivanty]

Townsend has lost weight! Good for her! But that weird topspin & inconsistancy is killing her

[@cherieharwell3573]

She can not revert back to the old playing habits the net is her game. And she could use Serna coaches help . She is to good to be played by her opponents

[@rockyalphonse9238]

Guys hold on , actually the camera makes her look heavier, she actually lost weight, i was there it was court # 1. Taylor gave Halep many easy points. Her backhand is killing her. She needs to definitely put more power and level up her backhand. Halep challenged her in her weak backhanded. Halep has many angles issues. Her 45 Is a hot mess. I know she is # 2 but she still had many angle issues. Another issues with Talor is she put too much powe when returning the ball at the base liner . She needs to balance her base liner power. She is a great player, she can domininate tennis if she wants too.

[@ez2733]

The topspin is ...

[@jamigoos7418]

Les Williams ont fait beaucoup de baby girl😃😃. La liste des prétendants pour la relève est longue. La retraite de Venus est tout proche, et Serena fait durer le plaisir. Girl power😋👊🏿👊🏿🤙🏾🙌

[@MrCreative242]

If Taylor really get serious with her fitness she’d be a problem

[@reuelray]

Taylor and her team just don't get it. The fitness issue is going to keep popping up time and time again until it is fixed. She also need to adjust her game to fit into the WTA level because her style will never work. Same thing applies to Donald Young on the ATP side. Same coaches, same results. Both can slay a giant once in awhile but consistently bowl out early. Halep did what a lot of players do to Taylor; pound her from the baseline by getting her to hit a lot of balls and then start moving her around. She then start making a lot of errors because of fatigue. Other players simply move her around from the very beginning. Everybody who defend her are not helping her. She need to get some serious coaches who will push her fitness level the way it should be and tweak her game. The clock has run out on Donald, and ticking fast on Taylor. This is really frustrating....

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

her mother feeds her and defends her weight...not helpful....

[@palm0607]

Why does Townsend position herself so far back on the baseline ?!?!

[@rockyalphonse9238]

It is called Line up in order to better control trajectory of the returned ball. Her line up is great because she is a flatfeet 👧. She has to line up a little bacward in order to have a better view of the ball.

[@swaralipi6224]

Townsend was a promising junior.. but a terrible letdown as a senior in pro Circuit.. no fitness no movement so much fat

[@konradferenczy1770]

swaralipi she used to be fatter as a junior when she was more successful. That is just a good excuse to body shame her.

[@springfield03sniper]

Konrád Ferenczy Fatshaming has nothing to do with this. The fact is she clearly can’t move as well as other players because of the extra weight. Look at Petra Kvitova. She wasn’t fat by any means, but when she lost a few pounds she is playing and moving much better. Same with Belinda Bencic. They worked on their fitness, and diet and now have less weight to carry around, which means better movement.

[@Nycgoomba]

But she was the same size, actually I think bigger as a junior so what's your point?

[@swaralipi6224]

@@konradferenczy1770 body shame? So u r not ashamed of her performance.. and instead counter attack? Hope Townsend dsnt have attitude like you then she will never succeed

[@swaralipi6224]

@@Nycgoomba the point is senior circuit is much more competitive.. u can't win here with that kind of movement and fitness.. just talent won't do here unlike junior circuit

[@cherieharwell3573]

I cant watch

[@thechallengers1486]

Notice how Haley just moved the ball around the court and just waited for Towson’s to miss

[@alexandrixtargaryen8080]

The Challengers check the winners dumbass

[@Unqcreations1]

Taylor look like Serena but playing like......?

[@darellgrant8753]

She looks nothing like Serena

[@Readyteddygo]

Taylor isn’t in match winning shape. If she and her team are serious about winning, they need to get her fitness and diet sorted. Something isn’t right here.

[@deepakmahajan4978]

I mean she can't grind against simona. She looks powerful but y don't she attack?? And with this fitness she can't compete at top level. It's not 80s anymore

[@hrabmv]

in 80s no tennis player looked lik this wtf are you talking abt??

[@tomgraham6071]

I don't think even in the 80s she'd have got that far...

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

re TT...when her mother took offense about an official advising TT to lose weight, the mother did a MAJOR disservice to her daughter by defending the daughters weight...its common sense in the athletic world...be at optimum weight and muscle tone to even start on any pro level! only throughobred race horses compete in horse races at their peak level of size and form ie not too thin not too thick, same with a plough horse pulling competition , must be thickly muscled etc no race horse wd compete in that event! a weight lifter is not going to enter or win in a long distance marathon with other top competitors built like giraffes....its common sense people! Defending an obvious problem is NOT going to solve the problem! it may be popular but the laws of physics do not involve or care about what current popular opinion is eh....

[@labutis1215]

Eating chicken nuggets is not enough to beat Halep

[@goebels99]

Taylor was too passive.

[@chuyenmyviet]

Townsend needs to lose weight before expecting any better tennis.

[@bertramattles1695]

I like Taylor Townsend but as a professional she does not want to accept that she should be in better shape, she is a terrible mover on the court and that is why shots that most players reach are out of range for her. If a shot is in her strike zone she has good power but lateral movement for her is a big weakness

[@DariusSarrafi]

I can't believe none of the umpires call Halep on her phony "grunt". That "grunt" often persists way past the point of strike and often into the opponent's swing!

[@sanjogh777]

Townsend looks like she had too much at the buffet.

[@tangibledetective1293]

and you look like you had one to many drinks at the bar.

[@nikkcox2880]

Taylor diet is in-n-out burgers😂

[@edwardroake4284]

dark tonny cmon man be nice

[@julianvago50]

The people just writing hatewords a fat, gay, black people etc.

[@kukulroukul4698]

and they never meet one :))))

[@Scorpio70ish]

Townsend looks more like a sumo wrestler than a tennis player.....the tennis result shows.