Zverev was ashamed of his diabetes for a long time

Even at the beginning of his career, when he was 17 or 18, he denied having the illness. “At first I even hid to inject myself with insulin. I did that in the toilets. When I first started dating girls, it was impossible to talk to them about it. “It was far too embarrassing for me to bring up the topic,” said Zverev, who made his illness public a few days ago and announced the founding of his foundation “Alexander Zverev Foundation – Impact against Diabetes”. He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was three and a half years old. He had a lot of bad experiences as a child. Once his equipment and insulin were stolen. He found it broken on the ground outside. “I’ve never really gotten rid of this childhood trauma, it’s still in the back of my mind,” said Zverev. He was also sometimes forbidden from eating cake at birthday parties. You can achieve anything The doctors told him when he was a child that he would not be able to do top-class sports with this disease. “I think I can say today that they were wrong. With this foundation, I would like to send the message to parents and children all over the world that there are no limits except those that you impose on yourself," emphasized the 25-year-old, who is currently in rehab following a serious ligament injury and is currently working on his comeback is working. He doesn't have any problems practicing his sport. He always has the blood glucose meter in his tennis bag. Zverev doesn’t see a big disadvantage. “It's one more thing to deal with, but if I lose it's my fault. Point. I don’t want to use diabetes as an excuse for losing,” said the world number two.

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Zverev was ashamed of his diabetes for a long time

Alexander Zverev was ashamed of his diabetes for a long time. Zverev reported in an interview with the French sports newspaper L'Equipe that he had many bad experiences as a child.

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