{"id":35589,"date":"2025-09-18T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/townsend-apologizes-for-criticism-of-chinese-food-in-shenzhen\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:20:19","slug":"townsend-apologizes-for-criticism-of-chinese-food-in-shenzhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/townsend-apologizes-for-criticism-of-chinese-food-in-shenzhen\/","title":{"rendered":"Townsend apologizes for criticism of Chinese food in Shenzhen"},"content":{"rendered":"SHENZHEN, China \u2013 American tennis player Taylor Townsend has issued a public apology &#8220;from the bottom of her heart&#8221; for derogatory comments related to Chinese food.Townsend&#8217;s statement, which followed her initial comments on social media, precedes the United States&#8217; match against Kazakhstan in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen, China.Townsend, 29 years old and currently number 1 in the world in doubles, shared videos of local dishes, including bullfrogs and turtles, accompanied by jokes about the quality of the food, indicating that &#8220;he would need to speak with Human Resources&#8221; on the subject.Subsequently, the tennis player turned to Instagram again on Wednesday to apologize, after receiving online criticism.Here&#8217;s the description of your Instagram post:<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/tay_taytownsend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Townsend Apologizes<\/a><\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I just wanted to come in here and sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart,&#8221; expressed Townsend, who acknowledged her privilege as a professional athlete to be able to travel the world and experience diverse cultures.<\/p><cite>Taylor Townsend<\/cite><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201c[It] is one of the things I love most about what I do, and I have had nothing but the most incredible experience here and at the tournament,\u201d Townsend added. \u201cEveryone has been so kind and generous. And what I said was not representative of that at all. And I just wanted to truly apologize. There is no excuse. There are no words. And for me, I will simply be better.\u201d<\/p><cite>Taylor Townsend<\/cite><\/blockquote>The match between the United States and Kazakhstan is scheduled for Thursday in the quarterfinals.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHENZHEN, China \u2013 American tennis player Taylor Townsend has issued a public apology &#8220;from the bottom of her heart&#8221; for derogatory comments related to Chinese food.Townsend&#8217;s statement, which followed her initial comments on social media, precedes the United States&#8217; match against Kazakhstan in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen, China.Townsend, 29 years old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[426,8857,7035,7945],"class_list":{"0":"post-35589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-excuse-me","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-taylor-townsend"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}