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Left: Tennis player Taylor Townsend making a disgusted face. Middle: Tennis player Taylor Townsend (USA) in action during round 4 of US Open Championship against Bianca Andreescu (Canada) at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Right: Tennis player Taylor Townsend's Instagram Story screenshot showing a spread of Chinese food. Caption overlay reads, "This is the craziest thing I've ever seen...and people eating this."

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“Aren’t those poisonous?”: Tennis star Taylor Townsend apologizes after mocking “crazy” Chinese food

Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

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Left: Polish CEO Piotr Szczerek snatching hat from young boy at US Open. Right: Tweet reading "This dude really said “YES I stole from a child it’s called the CEO MINDSET I will sue you if you are mean to me”

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Polish CEO who snatched signed hat from boy at US Open apologizes after his company is review-bombed

Left: Latvian Jelena Ostapenko yelling at her U.S. Open opponent American Taylor Townsend. Right: Taylor Townsend on a tennis court talking to an ESPN reporter. Caption overlay reads, ""She told me I have no class, I have no education, and to see what happens when we get outside the U.S."

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“I let my racket talk”: Taylor Townsend takes the high road after Jelena Ostapenko says she has “no education, no class” at U.S. Open

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“You hands down won this trend”: Naomi Osaka brought a custom bejeweled Labubu to the U.S. Open, and fans are obsessed

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British tennis star Emma Raducanu paused her match at the Cincinnati Open on Monday after a baby’s cries rang out for 10 minutes, disrupting play against world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. Caption overlay reads "crowd cheering because she told the ump to kick a child out….look at my sport dawg."

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Tennis star stops match to complain about crying baby, crowd says “yes!” to booting it from courts

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“Not the sippy cup”: Coco Gauff explains that the French Open trophy you see on TV isn’t the one champions go home with

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