Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko trade words after US Open match

(NewsNation) — U.S. Open opponents Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got into an intense argument Wednesday after their second-round match in which Townsend defeated Ostapenko 7-5, 6-1.

As the two went for the post-match handshake, they began to argue, with Ostapenko telling Townsend she should have apologized for a shot that clipped the top of the net but stayed in play, according to The Athletic.

In the video, captured by ESPN, Townsend, the women’s doubles world No. 1, told her that she doesn’t have to say sorry. The argument continued, with Ostapenko telling Townsend, “You have no education,” multiple times before Townsend told her that she could “learn how to take a loss better.”

In a post-match interview, Townsend said that "people get upset when they lose. Some people say bad