While Wimbledon’s crowds are noticeably white, the US Open is a multicultural microcosm of the city that hosts it.
New York, United States – When Taylor Townsend played her second match at this year’s US Open tennis tournament, she might have thought she was in Rio de Janeiro rather than New York.
Though Townsend is American and had plenty of crowd support, the noise for her opponent, Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia, was arguably louder.
Townsend still won the match but wasn’t upset to face a crowd cheering for her opponent on home soil.
“I literally came off the court, I was like, that was so fire. It was so fun. The energy. I’ve never been to a professional soccer match … I felt like that was the vibe. It was like they were chanting … then people for me would start chanting, going back and forth,” said the world number 132.
“It was really cool … this is probably…
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