Tennis star Taylor Fritz’s girlfriend Morgan Riddle has shared her harrowing experience of the Super Bowl this week, saying she went to the game with some friends and was “grabbed, groped, harassed and catcalled incessantly”.
The influencer, 26, shared a series of stories to her more than 240,000 Instagram followers and said she was forced to hide in the bathroom at the game as she had a ”panic attack”.
Riddle, who the New York Times has dubbed “the most famous woman in men’s tennis,” shared a video of herself crying in the bathroom, saying “getting grabbed by grown men is scary and I’m sensitive”.
Watch the video above.
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“Wasn’t going to post about this but I actually think its (sic) important to. I can’t believe the level of harassment we dealt with this weekend from men,” she began.
“In the last 3 days Ive (sic) been grabbed, gropped (sic), harassed, catcalled incessantly – basically every few minutes when we were out in public. And it was really bad at the game today. We couldn’t even enjoy the game without getting bothered by drunk, rude, gross male fans. It’s extremely stressful and scary.”
She claimed: “There was a father at the game with his son who looked about 10 years old. He used his kid as a vehicle to try to hit on us – and his own son, a child, turned to him and said ‘Dad, what are you doing?’ How do you think little boys become obnoxious men?”
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She said that she’ never experienced anything of the sort while watching Tennis.
”I have male sports fans who follow me and luckily ive (sic) never experienced something like this with tennis but I just hope any guy reading this understands the gravity of your words and actions, were (sic) all just there to try and watch a football game,” Riddle continued.
“Getting grabbed by grown men is scary and im sensitive.”
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She then shared a video of herself and her girlfriends dancing and wrote: “OK so men can be terrible but truly had the best weekend with the girls.”
Girlfriend to US player Taylor Fritz, who has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, Riddle has also made a name for herself, and attracted plenty of attention while in Melbourne for the 2024 Australian Open.
Riddle, a Minnesota native, has worked as an Instagram influencer and model for years, and met her tennis beau on the exclusive dating app Raya in early 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pair celebrated their third anniversary in June 2023.
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Fritz was 22, divorced and father to a child when they met, though this didn’t seem to phase Riddle, who moved in with the tennis star after a few weeks of dating.
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour has taken Fritz around the world, with Riddle travelling with him since 2021.
Unofficially the poster child for “TWAGs” (the tennis wives and girlfriends of grand slam regulars), Riddle began creating tennis-based content that grew her audience significantly.
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Speaking to The Age, Riddle revealed her social media intentions: “I cover the younger generation, the teenage girl fans of tennis because I think tennis, media and the sport in general underestimate how many of them there are.”
Over the past few years, she has been featured in some of fashion’s most elite publications, including a video for Vogue, which she says was a career highlight.
“Doing a video for Vogue was absolute top on my career bucket list so idk how I will top this. thank you guys so much,” Riddle wrote on Instagram.