Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Alexander Zverev was once fined $40,000 by way of the lads’s skilled tennis excursion and can forfeit greater than $30,000 in prize cash and all scores issues from the Mexican Open after hitting the chair umpire’s stand together with his racket following a loss in doubles.
Along with the ones consequences, the ATP introduced Thursday it might adopt “an additional assessment of the incident.”
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Zverev was once the 2020 U.S. Open runner-up. He’s recently ranked No. 3 and was once the protecting singles champion in Acapulco.
The 24-year-old German was once kicked out of the event after yelling and cursing at reputable Alessandro Germani and violently putting the umpire’s chair no fewer than 4 occasions.
Zverev and spouse Marcelo Melo had simply misplaced a doubles fit to Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara. Simply earlier than the fit ended, Germani gave Zverev a code violation for yelling and swearing whilst arguing a couple of shot that was once dominated in, putting in fit level.
The ATP mentioned Zverev was once fined $20,000 each and every for verbal abuse and unsportsmanlike habits, the utmost penalty for each and every violation.
He loses his complete prize cash for singles and doubles of $31,570 and all scores issues earned on the event.
In October, the ATP opened an investigation right into a former female friend’s accusations of home abuse by way of Zverev. The previous female friend first made the accusations in 2020.
