Morgan Riddle stated “f–k that” when many anticipated her to stay a personal life and sit quietly in a field at her boyfriend Taylor Fritz’s tennis matches.
Throughout an look on “The Squeeze” podcast with Tay Lautner, Riddle recalled “a clique of older wives and partners” within the tennis neighborhood making enjoyable of her for posting on social media and “capitalizing” on Fritz’s profession as a content material creator.
The 27-year-old influencer, who has been courting the American since 2020, rose to social media stardom by chronicling her life whereas touring with Fritz on the tennis tour — together with nightmare moments and journey mishaps.
“I think historically, a lot of the older wives and partners on the [tennis] tour have been very private, heads down, in the box,” Riddle stated. “They’re there to cheer on their associate they usually didn’t have tremendous public personas.
“… I don’t know if that is true, however I’ve been instructed by individuals on the tennis tour that once I was first posting TikTok [videos] a pair years in the past, there was a clique of older wives on the tour and they’d ship my movies of their group chat and simply make enjoyable of me.
“So I undoubtedly bought a variety of backlash, each from inside within the tennis neighborhood and the followers — I believe as a result of it was completely different. And I’m calling consideration to myself. I assume individuals anticipated me to take a seat within the field, be comparatively personal and never capitalize on my associate’s profession. And I kinda got here in weapons blazing. I used to be like, ‘well, f–k that,’ and posted no matter I needed 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 canceled.”
Riddle defined that Fritz is supportive of her profession and that they’ve pleasant competitors about who will make more cash on the tour.
“Taylor has always been really good [about public criticism],” she stated, including that the surface noise doesn’t negatively have an effect on their relationship. “He went professional when he was 17 so he has handled that for a lot, for much longer than I had. So he was very useful in teaching me via that.
“People write crazy things about us and our relationship, and about me and about him” she continued. “Each of us are united within the reality of like, okay we actually love one another, we now have a really wholesome relationship, nothing that anybody says on-line is gonna have any kind of impact 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.’”
Riddle has collaborated with Wimbledon and the US Open, amongst different tennis corporations and types, for social media posts.
She has 585,000 followers on TikTok and 432,000 on Instagram.
Riddle and Fritz have been courting since 2020 after she “swiped him on Raya,” a personal membership-based courting app, in the course of the pandemic.
The couple has labored collectively on many events, together with campaigns with Heineken in the course of the 2024 US Open and the luxurious vogue model, Boss.
