{"id":233996,"date":"2025-09-17T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233996\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:19:09","slug":"us-tennis-star-apologizes-for-chinese-food-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233996\/","title":{"rendered":"US tennis star apologizes for Chinese food comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHENZHEN, China \u2014 American tennis star Taylor Townsend has apologized \u201cfrom the bottom of my heart\u201d for making disparaging comments about Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>Her original comments on social media \u2014 followed by her apology \u2014 came before the United States plays Kazakhstan at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen, China.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Townsend, who is ranked world No. 1 in doubles, posted videos of local dishes including bullfrogs and turtles and joked she would need to \u201ctalk to HR\u201d about the quality of the food.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/tay_taytownsend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took to Instagram<\/a> again Wednesday to apologize after facing a backlash online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to come on here and apologize sincerely from the bottom of my heart,\u201d said Townsend, who said she understood how privileged she is as a professional athlete to be able to travel around the world and experience cultural differences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(It\u2019s) one of the things that I love so much about what I do, and I have had nothing but the most amazing experience in time here and the tournament,\u201d Townsend said. \u201cEveryone has been so kind and so gracious. And the things that I said were not representative of that at all. And I just truly wanted to apologize. There\u2019s no excuse, there are no words. And for me, I just, I will be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is scheduled to play Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHENZHEN, China \u2014 American tennis star Taylor Townsend has apologized \u201cfrom the bottom of my heart\u201d for making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1370,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-233996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115220077832187017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}