Taylor Townsend is reminded of her uniqueness when she hears the words “Black Girl Magic.”
The 24-year-old tennis player doesn’t look like most of the competitors in her sport. Black women, though many more in number today than in the past, make up just a small subset of professional tennis players.
Townsend embraces the uniqueness in her brown skin. She celebrates it by doing extraordinary things. Among them, her 2019 US Open upset of then-No. 4 seed Simona Halep in the second round, which was the biggest win of her professional career.
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