Alexander Zverev. (Credit: Twitter)
“I think it’s complete bullsh*t,” stated world quantity 9 Zverev, after his second-spherical victory within the Paris Masters.
German tennis participant Alexander Zverev dismissed the 450,000 euro nice ($475,300) handed to him for allegedly assaulting a girl in May 2020 as “bullsh*t” on Wednesday.
“I think it’s complete bullsh*t,” stated the world quantity 9, after his second-spherical victory within the Paris Masters.
“Anybody that has semi-standard IQ levels knows what this is all about.”
Zverev has been “accused of physically abusing a woman and damaging her health during an argument” within the German capital over three years in the past, stated a spokeswoman for the Berlin courts on Tuesday.
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The former world quantity two is contesting the nice, which was issued on October 2, and has “lodged an objection”, in response to the spokeswoman’s assertion.
BREAKING As per Barron’s, Alexander Zverev has been issued with a penalty order for allegedly assaulting his former girlfriend.
He was handed a €450,000 nice by a Berlin courtroom.
The German contested the nice and lodged an objection. pic.twitter.com/6VjL4nqfsK
— Relevant Tennis (@RelevantTennis) October 31, 2023
She added that till a remaining ruling is made, Zverev is taken into account to be harmless.
The identify of the complainant was not cited by the courtroom, however Zverev’s legal professionals rejected the accusations in a press release and named the lady as Brenda Patea, the tennis participant’s ex-girlfriend.
The allegations made by Patea “which alone form the basis for the penalty order, have already been refuted by a forensic medical report”, the legal professionals stated.
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In January, ATP, which runs the lads’s tennis tour, closed an investigation into allegations of home abuse in opposition to Zverev involving a feminine tennis participant after discovering inadequate proof.
The ATP had opened the probe into Zverev in October 2021 following allegations made by his former girlfriend, Olya Sharypova.
Zverev is at the moment competing within the ATP Paris Masters and received his first-spherical match in opposition to Hungarian Marton Fucsovics on Tuesday.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
