The number 4 of world tennis is accused of domestic violence. Focusing on his Roland Garros tournament, he confirmed he will not take part in his trial, which opens on May 31. Update on the case of the 27-year-old German.
On Court Philippe Chatrier on Monday, he remained calm, focused and resilient against Rafael Nadal’s forehands. However, Alexander Zverev would not have the same coolness in his personal life. While the German will play his second round of Roland Garros against Belgium’s David Goffin in Paris on Thursday, he will be conspicuous by his absence from the domestic violence trial, which opens on May 31 in Berlin. “No, I’m here,” the German answered a few days ago when asked if he would participate in the trial.
And for good reason, the world No. 4 definitely intends to stay at Roland Garros until the end and has assured that the upcoming trial will not affect his thinking. “I trust the German justice system. I believe in the truth. I know what I did and what I didn’t do. There’s absolutely no way I’m going to lose [le procès]”, he added: “That’s why I can play calmly and my results, particularly my title in Rome, have proved that.”
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Let’s remind that the 27-year-old player is contesting the criminal case of the Berlin District Court, which in October 2023 fined him 450,000 euros “for assault”. Eight court hearings have been scheduled until July, but no personal appearances have been scheduled.
In particular, Alexander Zverev is accused of “physically abusing a woman during an argument and harming her health” in Berlin in May 2020, according to the court. The court proceedings did not name the complainant, but the athlete’s defense said in October that it was his former partner Brenda Patea, with whom he had a baby daughter, Mayla, in March 2021. Alexander Zverev, for his part, has pleaded not guilty and denied the charges since the start of the Berlin Package procedure in July 2023.
“He tried to suffocate me with a pillow”
However, other accusations were made against the tennis teacher, again from her ex-girlfriend Olga Sharipovan. The latter revealed that he was a “victim of domestic violence” several times. Russ describes in detail a scene that took place in August 2019 after an altercation in New York during the US Open. “I ran out of the hotel barefoot, beaten. I was standing on a street in New York and I didn’t know where to go or what to do. He tried to suffocate me with a pillow, hit my head against the wall and twist my hands,” he says. Before clarifying that while it was “not the first and last time a hand was laid on me” during a romantic relationship, he “feared for his life” that day.
In a long interview on a Russian website tournament The young woman repeats her words in a long interview, adding that there have been “many” such situations. The Russian woman then did not hesitate to provide the media with screenshots of her exchanges via SMS, supporting photos to her friends, whom she told about the altercation. The couple was supposed to reconcile the next day, and a few weeks later to finally break up. Olga Sharipova has not filed a complaint to date, simply wanting to “disclose this information”.
Caught in the clutches of these revelations, Alexander Zverev has always categorically denied the accusations of these two ex-girlfriends and started a new life with German actress Sofia Tomalla. As for the ATP, which governs the men’s professional tennis circuit, in January 2023 it closed an investigation into allegations of domestic violence by Olga Sharipova due to a lack of sufficient evidence.
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Source: Le Figaro
