Taylor Fritz’s partner, Morgan Riddle, responds to accusations of ‘capitalising’ on the American’s fame
Morgan Riddle has snapped back at critics who suggest that she has been ‘capitalising’ on the tennis career of her partner, Taylor Fritz.
Riddle has been dating the 2024 US Open men’s singles finalist since 2020, and has featured in Netflix’s ‘Break Point’, with their close relationship evident to observe in the tennis series.
The 27-year-old is best known as an influencer on Instagram and TikTok, amassing over one million followers across the two platforms through the sharing of her fashion, beauty, and travel content.
“I think historically, a lot of the older wives and partners on the [tennis] tour have been very private, heads down, in the box,” said Riddle on ‘The Squeeze’ podcast with Tay Lautner.
“They’re there to cheer on their partner and they didn’t have super public personas.
“I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve been told by people on the tennis tour that when I was first posting TikTok [videos] a couple of years ago, there was a clique of older wives on the tour and they would send my videos in their group chat and just make fun of me.
“So, I definitely got a lot of backlash, both from within in the tennis community and the fans — I think because it was different. And I’m calling attention to myself.
“I guess people expected me to sit in the box, be relatively private and not capitalize on my partner’s career. And I kind of came in guns blazing. I was like, ‘well, f–k that,’ and posted whatever I wanted to.
“I think people think I’m annoying sometimes. I definitely have a certain person on TikTok specifically where I kind of feed into it and say things that are controversial enough where it will piss people off but it won’t get me cancelled.”
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Despite the fame of her partner, Fritz has been highly-supportive and coached Riddle on how to handle the attention that comes with such a high-profile relationship.
She went on to state that: “Taylor has always been really good [about public criticism]. He went pro when he was 17 so he has dealt with that for so much, much longer than I had. So he was very helpful in coaching me through that.”
“People write crazy things about us and our relationship, and about me and about him” she continued. “Both of us are united in the fact of like, ok we really love each other, we have a very healthy relationship, nothing that anyone says online is going have any sort of effect on that.
“He’s also been really good about being super defensive of me and what I’m doing. That’s what interesting too is that so many people have such a problem with me capitalizing on tennis and his career and he has always encouraged me and supported me to do it. And he wants to be a dual-income household. He’s like ‘hell yeah.’”
Taylor Fritz’s most recent match was a 7-5, 6-4 defeat to the in-form Jack Draper at the Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells.
