The 21st century
United States · born Chicago, 1996 · left-handed · Wimbledon doubles champion 2024 with Kateřina Siniaková, her first Grand Slam title
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2024
Wimbledon doubles champion with Kateřina Siniaková, her first Grand Slam title
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Event together for Townsend and Siniaková when they won Wimbledon
2012
Wimbledon girls' doubles champion with Eugenie Bouchard
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Doubles ranking from 28 July 2025, the first mother to reach No. 1
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Grand Slam doubles titles with Siniaková, 2024 to 2026
Taylor Townsend was born in Chicago on 16 April 1996. A left-hander who likes to serve and volley, she was the world's top junior in 2012, when she won the Australian Open girls' singles and doubles and the Wimbledon and US Open girls' doubles, and she reached the Wimbledon girls' singles final in 2013. That summer of 2012 the USTA withheld funding for her US Open trip and told her she needed to lose weight; she went anyway and won the junior doubles.
Her senior career was slower to build. Her son Adyn was born in March 2021, and she returned to reach the US Open doubles final in 2022 with Caty McNally and the French Open final in 2023 with Leylah Fernandez. Teamed with Kateřina Siniaková she won Wimbledon in 2024, the Australian Open in 2025 and the French Open in 2026, and on 28 July 2025 she became world No. 1 in doubles. In singles she reached a career-high No. 46 in August 2024.
| Wimbledon 2024 | Seeded fourth with Siniaková; beat the top seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the semi-final and the second seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-1) in the final, which ended just before 10.30pm under the Centre Court roof |
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| Wimbledon since | Semi-finalist with Siniaková in 2025, lost to Hsieh Su-wei and Jeļena Ostapenko; quarter-finalist in 2026, lost to Guo Hanyu and Kristina Mladenovic |
| Wimbledon juniors | Girls' doubles champion 2012 with Eugenie Bouchard, beat Belinda Bencic and Ana Konjuh 6-4, 6-3. Girls' singles runner-up 2013 to Bencic, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 |
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| 2024 | Women's doubles | with Kateřina Siniaková |
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Wimbledon, 2024
She had lost Grand Slam doubles finals in 2022 and 2023 with different partners. "This is my first one, my first Grand Slam title. I've been close two other times," she said after the final. She and Siniaková had first played together that season, and Wimbledon was only their third event as a pair.
Source: WTAWimbledon, 2024
The final ended just before 10.30pm, under the closed roof, on Routliffe's double fault at the first of five championship points.
Source: WTAChicago, childhood
Her mother found journals in which Townsend, aged eight, had written that she wanted to be No. 1 in doubles. "I didn't know what I was saying at that age," she said in 2025.
Source: WTA, July 2025New York, 2012
As the top-ranked junior girl, at 16, she was told by the USTA to lose weight, and it withheld money for her US Open trip. She went, reached the junior singles quarter-finals and won the doubles. Writing about it in 2021 she said: "I'm not thin, and I've never been thin."
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