U.S. Tennis Star's Girlfriend Has 2-Word Response To Critics

Morgan Riddle, the girlfriend of American tennis star Taylor Fritz, has been taking some heat on social media.

Riddle, who has more than 400,000 followers on Instagram and more than 500,000 followers on TikTok, has been accused by some of "capitalizing" on her boyfriend's career. Riddle posts a lot of content at tennis tournaments and has become one of the bigger off-the-court personalities in the sport. However, some have taken issue with her content, suggesting that she's just using her boyfriend to go viral.

The girlfriend of the American tennis star isn't having any of that, though. She clapped back with a two-word criticism.

Riddle appeared on “The Squeeze” podcast with Tay Lautner.

Riddle's message to critics saying that she should just be quiet: “f–k that."

The influencer admitted that when she first started going viral, there was “a clique of older wives and partners” in the tennis community who accused her of “capitalizing” on Fritz’s career.

Riddle has been dating Fritz since 2020. She understands that many wives and girlfriends in the tennis community are typically more reserved and quiet.

“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 said. “They’re there to cheer on their partner and they didn’t have super public personas.

“… I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve been told by people on the tennis tour that when I was first posting TikTok [videos] a couple years ago, there was a clique of older wives on the tour and they would send my videos in their group chat and just make fun of me.

“So I definitely got a lot of backlash, both from within in the tennis community and the fans — I think because it was different. And I’m calling attention to myself. I guess people expected me to sit in the box, be relatively private and not capitalize on my partner’s career. And I kinda came in guns blazing. I was like, ‘well, f–k that,’ and posted whatever I wanted 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.”

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Riddle added that Fritz, who is No. 4 in the world, is supportive of her career. They even joke about who will make more money off of the tour.

“Taylor has always been really good [about public criticism],” she said. “He went pro when he was 17 so he has dealt with that for so much, much longer than I had. So he was very helpful in coaching me through that.

“People write crazy things about us and our relationship, and about me and about him” she continued. “Both of us are united in the fact of like, ok we really love each other, we have a very healthy relationship, nothing that anyone says online is gonna have any sort of effect 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.'”

Fritz is set to play Jack Draper in the Round of 16 on Wednesday evening at Indian Wells in California.