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Jessica Korda was born to be a tennis player. Her dad, Petr Korda, a spiky-haired Czech nicknamed "Woodstock" after the Peanuts character, was the 1998 Australian Open champion and was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. Her mom, Regina Rajc...

PARIS -- When Taylor Townsend started the year, she was a fresh-faced 15-year-old ranked No. 25 in the ITF's world junior rankings. Less than five months later, Townsend is still fresh-faced, but now 16. And as the No. 1 junior girl in the world, ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- American teen Taylor Townsend found that Australia is her kind of place. Except, that is, for one aspect of life that the newly minted Australian Open champion hasn't found quite palatable. "It's nasty," she said, of Vegem...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Taylor Townsend had a busy day at the Australian Open on Friday. The first assignment for the 15-year-old was competing in the junior girls' semifinals, where she defeated fellow American Krista Hardebeck 7-6 (3), 6-4 to mo...

When she was 14, Taylor Townsend's life wasn't really all that different from that of any other high school freshman. With a mix of anxiety and excitement, she was just settling in at Charles Drew (Riverdale, Ga.), where her father, Gary, is the prin...