Fritz\u2019s gift of gab overfloweth such that he often spends his spare time speaking to audiences of a couple hundred viewers on his Twitch channel<\/a>, holding court on whatever topics he wants and answering questions\u2014about tennis and whatever else\u2014as he indulges in another passion of his: playing video games. <\/p>\n I\u2019ve watched some of the streams, particularly during his pre-gaming Q&A portions with fans. Fritz\u2019s answers and updates can be valuable on a reporting level, particularly when he provides information about his progress with injury recoveries. But I mostly want to keep what Fritz says on there somewhat off-the-record\u2014as much as that\u2019s ever possible for online content\u2014to allow Fritz some space to keep the candor he feels in that more casual setting as much as possible. <\/p>\n His comments have been clipped and aggregated a few times\u2014including a recent lengthy ramble on the balls used at Indian Wells, which Fritz lamented when several people on social media launched ill-conceived broadsides against him.<\/p>\n \u201cMe getting on stream and thoughtfully answering questions for fans isn\u2019t something I am doing me, but for the fans that support me enough to want to come in and ask me questions live,\u201d Fritz wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cIf people want to misinterpret and turn the things I say against me and turn it into unwarranted hate towards me then maybe it\u2019s not worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n Courtney Nguyen, herself a Twitch streamer as well<\/a>, wrote at Forty Deuce about Fritz and their shared concerns about the medium as she covered Indian Wells<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n As a fellow streamer \u2013 shout out my dedicated six-person audience! \u2013 I know how complicated it can be to, in real time, try to field questions while also being wary of getting clipped. Streams are supposed to be casual safe-spaces, and if they\u2019re not, well, we\u2019re just not going to say anything interesting. I asked Fritz what it was like to see his clip spread on social media:<\/p>\n \u201cI normally just delete the VODs of the stuff as soon as the stream is over,\u201d Fritz said, \u201cbecause I kind of want it to just be more exclusive to the people that come by and watch, and I don\u2019t really want all of the clips just circulating online.\u201d<\/p>\n While I also want to support Fritz\u2019s wishes for a degree of ephemerality in his streams, there\u2019s one moment of his streaming, away from any tennis talk, that I\u2019ve wanted to ask him about when I had my own chance to speak with him this week at the Miami Open. <\/p>\n My friend Ebcak, who is a diehard Fritz fan and watches his streams fastidiously, shared with me a moment from Fritz\u2019s World of Warcraft play that he especially enjoyed; I also thought it was an amusing and interesting insight into the unique figure Fritz cuts as a male sports star. <\/p>\n As he discussed his most successful game style in the combat-heavy game World of Warcraft repurposing the manosphere term<\/a> \u201cHigh T\u201d\u2014meaning elevated testosterone\u2014into something healthier, at least in a video game context.<\/p>\n \u201cGuys, don\u2019t let anyone tell you otherwise: Healing in games, a lot of people say that it\u2019s like a \u2018girl\u2019 thing to do. [To] heal, play a support in League, and be an enchanter\/healer.<\/p>\n \u201cHealing is High T. Healing for the boys is High T activity, alright? Don\u2019t let anyone tell you otherwise. My healer in retail is literally called \u2018High T.\u2019 Don\u2019t let anyone tell you otherwise: it is High T.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cHealing is High T\u201d concept has become a refrain for Fritz; he repurposed it again when he streamed after this year\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n \u201cMy blood test came back, and my T is off the charts,\u201d Fritz said in January. \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018cause I\u2019m healing for the bros.\u201d<\/p>\n When I asked Fritz about \u201cHealing is High T\u201d after his first win in Miami on Friday\u2014and if it might inform how he deals with his own injuries\u2014he struggled to suppress his giggles before answering this unexpected question as best he could.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just, in the games I play, there\u2019s a lack of people that play the healing role,\u201d Fritz began. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s typically known\u2014stereotyped\u2014in the gaming community as being a \u2018girl\u2019 role to play. And, you know, I do really well on it. I\u2019ve climbed [to] a lot of my highest ratings in that specific game [by] healing. So it\u2019s just a joke I say\u2014it is a very manly thing to do. High T is healing your homies.\u201d<\/p>\n When I asked Fritz if he felt as if he was \u201cpushing back on a certain kind of masculinity,\u201d he was less certain.<\/p>\n \u201cI just think it\u2019s funny,\u201d Fritz said, still laughing. \u201cI\u2019m not sure.\u201d<\/p>\n From my vantage point, at least, Fritz has a security in his masculinity which comes through regularly, piercing and subverting the expectations one might have for one of the most dominant American male tennis players of this decade. <\/p>\n This week, he told Tennis Channel<\/a> that the last time he\u2019d cried during a movie was earlier this month, at the Pixar animated film \u201cHoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n While other players were in the Maldives in serene but sterile surrounds, Fritz and his longtime girlfriend Morgan Riddle\u2014whose career he has also supported throughout their relationship\u2014went to Tokyo.<\/p>\n One memorable night, Fritz gamely went along<\/a> when Riddle\u2019s idea for a night out on the town was \u201cthe muscle girl bar<\/a>,\u201d allowing himself to get carried and slapped across the face by one of the women working there.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was hilarious, that was great,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cIt was probably one of the most fun things. We had no idea what to expect; I think Morgan had seen one of our friends that had done it, and it just looked really funny. It was just kind of a thing that, when you get a group together there, it\u2019s pretty hard not to just laugh at how absurd everything is. I hope to go back and bring all the guys when we\u2019re there for the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n Taylor Fritz plays the second match on the main stadium on Sunday afternoon at the Miami Open, facing his close friend Reilly Opelka.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading Bounces! If you enjoyed this story, please consider either a paid subscription to Bounces! -Ben<\/p>\n Thanks for reading Bounces! This post is public so feel free to share it.<\/p>\n![\"Adding](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/650b6b8c-a394-46dd-9014-bacd29ef356f_7170.jpeg\")
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