When Morgan Riddle came across the American tennis player Taylor Fritz on Raya in the early days of lockdown, it wasn’t his athletic prowess that caught her eye. “He had a photo of him playing tennis and I was like, oh, cute,” Riddle recalls drolly over Caesar salad and oysters at Benjamin Grill inside Arthur Ashe Stadium. Instead, a photo of Fritz cradling a koala piqued her interest. While she admits that her knowledge of tennis was “nonexistent” when she and Fritz coupled up, five years later, Riddle has become a fixture in her own right in the tennis world and beyond.

Riddle and I meet during the 2025 US Open , just ahead of Fritz’s third-round match against Swiss player Jérôme Kym. (Playing on the Louis Armstrong court before him is Aryna Sabalenka , the world number one. “She

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