Taylor Townsend, INTERVIEWER: "They told my parents I was fat, then they excluded me" + "My mom steals money from me"
Taylor Townsend (23 years, 77 WTA) gave an extensive interview in the international press in which he spoke about the prejudices he has faced throughout his career.
The american made an incursion through her childhood, one in which her mother even stole money from her.
"Since I know myself I haven't been given a chance. When I was 2 years old, I was excluded from a tennis program, and the directors told my parents that I was fat, lazy and untrained.How can people determine this in a child I have no idea. From the beginning, people looked at my physique and automatically judged my abilities before I went on the field and started playing. Tennis was the one that brought me happiness, where I felt free and I felt that other opinions didn't matter, "Townsend told behindtheracquet.com, quoted by newspapers.com.
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Taylor Townsend (23 years, 77 WTA) gave an extensive interview in the international press in which he spoke about the prejudices he has faced throughout his career.
The american made an incursion through her childhood, one in which her mother even stole money from her.
"Since I know myself I haven't been given a chance. When I was 2 years old, I was excluded from a tennis program, and the directors told my parents that I was fat, lazy and untrained.How can people determine this in a child I have no idea. From the beginning, people looked at my physique and automatically judged my abilities before I went on the field and started playing. Tennis was the one that brought me happiness, where I felt free and I felt that other opinions didn't matter, "Townsend told behindtheracquet.com, quoted by newspapers.com.
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