LONDON: If it was a one strike contest, then social media influencer Morgan Riddle was flaunting form. That was until she hit the delete button.
No sooner had her boyfriend Taylor Fritz' two-handed winner punctuated the fourth-round contest 4-6, 6-7(4), 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-3 against the fourth-seeded Alexander Zverev, and Riddle was at work. 'When ur man wins 4 the girls,' she said in her story.
Riddle, a style maven, in another story said, 'cheer loud ladies'. Zverev had settled last month in an assault case pressed against him by his former partner Brenda Patea, the mother of his child. He had denied the charge.
After their clash Zverev talked at length to Fritz, who he has known since his junior days. "His team is extremely respectful," Zverev said. "There's some other people that maybe are in the box, who are not from the tennis world, they were a bit over the top. But no issues with Taylor. I think Taylor is a great guy."
Fritz asked Zverev to identify who was loud in his box. "I don't really hear my box when I'm playing," he said. "I didn't hear anyone being loud. He's totally allowed to be annoyed if they were being annoying."
Riddle deleted her 'story', blaming it on media reactions. "Regarding my stories...," she wrote. "I took them down as soon as I realized the misunderstanding and how they were blown out of proportion by the media. They were not about anything that has happened off the tennis court."
