American tennis star Taylor Fritz has been dating Morgan Riddle since 2020, but there is still one thing he won’t allow in their relationship.
Fritz, 28, met Riddle through the celebrity dating app Raya, and the pair have been going strong ever since. Fritz was previously married and fathered a child with his ex-wife, whom he co-parents outside of his hectic tennis schedule.
Riddle is often seen supporting Fritz at tennis tournaments, and even quit her job to become an influencer and help him on the road. Riddle has thrived as a content creator and regularly uploads videos with Fritz on TikTok, but he refuses to go too far out of his comfort zone.
When Fritz met Riddle, she was a media director at a video game nonprofit. Fritz was establishing himself before the pandemic, and his relationship with Riddle had become serious once normality had resumed.
Initially, Riddle took advantage of remote working and traveled worldwide with Fritz until it became too inconvenient. Riddle quit her job, switched her attention to content creation, and established a large fan base.
With almost 500,000 Instagram followers and over 600,000 fans on TikTok, the experiment paid off. Fritz frequently appears in Riddle’s content as she documents her life as the girlfriend of a tennis star, but he also partakes in viral trends.
However, Fritz is selective about which trends he participates in and refuses to do lip-synching videos, a phenomenon on TikTok. “Sometimes, if it’s not a distraction, she’ll ask me to do some kind of trend,” Fritz told GQ.
“Most of the time, I’ll be like, ‘That’s kind of cringe. I don’t want to do it.’” Riddle then added: “He won’t lip-synch for a video. That’s his number one rule.”
Fritz then explained one of the reasons why. “Nooooo chance. I will see that everywhere on social media,” he said.
Although he doesn’t always agree to videos with Riddle, he’s delighted that she’s been able to build a career around his tennis. “I’d much rather have Morgan travel with me and do what she’s doing: one, push the sport of tennis, and two, make money doing it,” he said.
“At least she’s making something of,” Fritz added, before Riddle said: “The cards I was dealt. Might as well capitalize on it.”
Fritz has also clarified that while he’s happy for Riddle to push the boundaries, it can’t distract from his tennis career. “Morgan knows not to do anything that could be a distraction to what I’m doing,” he said.
While Riddle gambled with her employment status, she quickly noticed that she had found a gap in the market. “Tennis WAGs in the past were relatively private,” Riddle said.
“Not only WAGs, but players too—the travel, the hotels, the players’ lounges, it was very walled off to everyone. All those private spaces were really private, and I started blasting them on TikTok. People were interested in it.”