US Open: Taylor Townsend in tears as Krejcikova saves eight match points to survive

• American misses first grand slam singles quarter-final

• Townsend had become huge crowd favorite in Queens

A tearful Taylor Townsend suffered a heartbreaking fourth-round loss at the US Open after Barbora Krejcikova astonishingly saved eight match points.

Townsend's dramatic week has been one of the stories of the tournament so far, with the American becoming headline news after her second-round opponent Jelena Ostapenko confronted her courtside and accused her of having no education" and no class".