Townsend and Bouchard Lose in Semifinal PARIS - This wasn't Taylor Townsend's tournament but she wasn't blaming anyone. "Everyone has their good days, everyone has their bad days," she said after losing in a quarterfinal singles match on Wednesday. As the 2012 Australian Open junior champion in singles and doubles, Townsend earned the top seed in the French Open singles and doubles, too. But it was a different surface and she faced different expectations. On Friday, Townsend, 16, of Stockbridge, Ga., and her partner, Eugenie Bouchard of Canada, scrambled but could not find a groove, losing, 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the junior girls" doubles semifinal to Monserrat Gonzalez of Paraguay and Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil. "I can't complain," Townsend said. I learned a lot being here. Her work, she said, needs to concentrate on what she called "point construction." While her points didn't add up, she praised her opponents. They were way more aggressive than we were from the jump, and I commend them for that, they were on fire and kept the lead and they didn't let up at all. Trailing 5-6 and love-30 in the second set, Townsend jammed a serve up the middle and forced an error. When she hit a second unreturnable serve, it moved her to 30-30. Soon, she won her serve and pulled even at 6-6. But in the tiebreaker, Townsend blocked a volley into net and she and Bouchard soon found themselves trailing 3-0. The American redeemed herself a moment later, cutting off a return with a slashing forehand volley for a winner. It was touch and go tennis. Townsend rammed a backhand wide and then she and Bouchard trailed 2-4. Gonzalez rifled a forehand up the middle for a winner and Bouchard sailed a forehand wide to reach match point. Gonzalez double faulted and the score stood at 3-6. The match could still have gone to a third set. In a final shootout, however, Townsend saved three volleys directed at her and then tossed up a lob that Gonzalez slammed for the winner that won the match. Townsend said she will return to the United States before flying to London later in the month to compete in the Roehampton Club junior tournament and the Wimbledon championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.