One of many world’s greatest tennis gamers, Taylor Fritz, has confirmed he has a formidable rank in League of Legends.
The American is ranked quantity 5 in males’s tennis and lately certified for this yr’s Wimbledon Semi-final.
There, he’ll face off in opposition to the winner of British star Cameron Norrie versus the reigning Wimbledon champion, Carlos Alcaraz.
Now, Fritz has confirmed in an Instagram remark that he’s additionally Emerald 3 in LoL, placing him above properly over 80% of the sport’s participant base.
That’s particularly spectacular when you think about that LoL has over 125 million lively month-to-month gamers.
Fritz recurrently streams himself gaming on his Twitch channel, Taylorfritz97, the place he has raised over $600k in charity gaming tournaments.
He has additionally collaborated with Los Ratones, the League of Legends staff of UK Twitch celebrity Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont.
In a single stream, Fritz was given some teaching and jungling ideas by Los Ratones’ Veljko ‘Velja’ Čamdžić
Fritz can be an esports fan. He was one of many 14,500 who watched Faker and T1 win LoL Worlds 2024 within the O2 Area.
The Worlds Semi-finals had been held in Paris final yr, simply earlier than Fritz competed on the Paris Masters.
Consequently, he attended the LoL Worlds 2024 semi-finals after which flew over to London for the ultimate.
Fritz advised the Related Press about his expertise on the match final yr:
“The O2 Area was packed. It was actually one of many coolest issues I’ve ever been to.”
He additionally advised the press about why he enjoys gaming: “I’m such a aggressive individual, so I wish to compete in different methods.
“It sounds loopy, however the recreation — and particularly the place I play within the recreation — could be very mentally taxing and mentally draining. I’ve to be tremendous dialled in.”
The latter quote is why the jungle foremost says he, understandably, doesn’t play LoL video games earlier than a tennis match.
Well-known celebrities who play League of Legends
With LoL’s reputation, it isn’t a shock that the sport has many different well-known superstar gamers.
Among the best-known instances is the band Think about Dragons, who carried out at Worlds 2024 and seem in Arcane on Netflix.
Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber as soon as tweeted out that he had began enjoying LoL and that Teemo was his favorite champion.
Fritz isn’t the one athlete both, with former NBA participant Gordon Hayward and former NFL participant Chris Kluwe each eager LoL gamers.
AEW wrestler Claudio Castagnoli is fittingly a tank participant with Sion being his foremost champion.
American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has additionally streamed herself enjoying LoL on Twitch to very large audiences.
As for the UK, English Actor Simon Pegg has confessed to being a LoL fan in earlier interviews.
You possibly can see what all these well-known individuals like in regards to the recreation by watching esports occasions and visiting LoL betting websites.
In my seven years of esports writing, I’ve introuduced esports protection to newspapers, interviewed a number of the greatest names within the business, and pushed viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I’m most pleased with the latter.
