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For Taylor Townsend, the Racquet Was Always a Family Heirloom

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Some athletes have to go find their sport. Taylor Townsend was born standing on top of hers — tennis is simply the language spoken in her house, inherited rather than discovered. It is the kind of pedigree Palm Beach knows how to spot on sight: talent that arrives already fluent, carried forward instead of built from scratch.

With reporting from Town & Country.

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