social media<\/a>, Gauff is now taking her fandom up a notch. Not only has she told Jessica Pegula and Giuliana Olmos to watch it, she wants to see Storrie and Williams at a tournament this season — and has invited the actors to watch her play.<\/p>\n\u201cI just kind of saw people talking about a hockey show, a gay hockey show. That interested me,\u201d she told tennis.com during her pre-Australian Open press conference. \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh, six episodes, perfect.\u2019 I just dove right in. Obviously, there\u2019s some nice spicy scenes. It\u2019s such a beautiful love story. I think that was like the main thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, speaking to Tennis Channel, Gauff said she understood why the series has resonated with fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe storyline, I think is so relevant, I think a lot of people maybe can relate,” she said. “I think that was really cool. The tension, obviously, the sexual tension and then the romantic tension. I love the trope that enemies — well, they aren\u2019t real enemies — but enemies to lovers, but they both were denying their feelings. I don\u2019t know. I just eat stuff up like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The smash-hit gay romance series Heated Rivalry has taken pop culture by storm this winter, and the stars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-418394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}