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They met in 2020, their story began with a horror movie, continued with an anime and then with many trips. Morgan Riddle, Taylor Fritz’s partner, according to some in the tennis world is more famous than her boyfriend
“The most famous woman in the world of men’s tennis.” Too much? Not for the New York Times which in 2023 awarded this title to Morgan Riddle, who doesn’t mind excesses anyway. She and her boyfriend Taylor Fritz they have been renamed as the new «Posh and Becks» del tennis, even though their first meeting took place, in the midst of the Covid pandemic, on the private dating app Raya. After all, it was 2020 and not 1997.
On the first date she suggested seeing a film horror. He then showed her a anime. And four years of love have passed since that Japanese cartoon. Even if the premise of Taylor, already father of a son he had at 19 with his ex-wife (tennis player Raquel Pedraza), was immediately clear: «Look, I don’t have all this free time. I’ll be traveling pretty much every week. But you know, it’s not a bad deal: after all, you can travel all over the world if you want to.”
However, there are those who are sure that in the universe of rackets, balls and ATP tournaments, Morgan is more famous than the boyfriend of the world number 9 (number 24 when they met). And the credit would be all due to her ability to have created such a large follower base that it has made her a star in a world that she does not practice at all at a professional level. And not even at an amateur level. But she comments on it.
Like when he replied to Zverev after some statements by the German at the end of the eighth finals of the last Wimbledon tournament against Fritz. «His team was extremely respectful – said Zverev -. But I think there are some people in his box who maybe don’t come from the tennis world and maybe don’t watch every single match. They were a little bit over the top…”. Soon after, Morgan posted a story on Instagram with a caption that immediately seemed to be a response to the German with a reference to the domestic violence charges for which he went to trial («When your boyfriend wins for the girls»). Given the sensitivity of the subject and the lack of convictions, Mrs. Fritz was forced to rectify: «I deleted the stories as soon as I realized themisunderstanding. There were no references to events that happened outside the field, there are no bad relations with anyone.”
Morgan is an influencer and does not reject this term, she is the most well-known “Wag” (acronym for “wives and girlfriends”) and she doesn’t get offended when someone labels her as “the companion of”. He lends himself to photos and autographs in the stands while Taylor plays and is a constant presence in the life and career of the tennis player who challenges Sinner in the final of the US Open. Phone in hand, Riddle — also content creator — documents his every move; and these for most of the weeks of the year coincide with the ATP tournaments in which his Taylor participates. There are thousands or hundreds of thousands of views on his videos of «behind the scenes», now at Wimbledon, now in Australia, then Indian Wells and Roland Garros. In short, the frequency of videos on his YouTube channel, which has over 80 thousand subscribers, is marked by the ATP calendar.
So this is Morgan’s tennis, very blonde, always impeccable, the most famous “wag” on the circuit and “hard-working, funny and self-confident” as defined by those who worked with her in her tennis-related projects. She who embraced this world and above all every nuance and possible declination of it. So it is not surprising that she became a “goldsmith” to create a line of themed jewelry or that on any social network she became an icon and reference of the «tenniscore»the trend that combines fashion and tennis that reached the peak of its fame with the film «Challengers» and Zendaya’s outfits.
To those who compared them to Barbie and Ken of the tennis universe Morgan replied with a smile and then with a new advertising project. But don’t imagine her as one of the “political wives” or “managerial wives” of sports. In the end, all she needs to do is be “the most famous woman in the world of men’s tennis.”
September 8, 2024 (edit September 8, 2024 | 13:08)
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