Zverev on investigation: “Glad that ATP is moving their ass”

“It is very difficult for me to clear my name. I myself have been asking for this to happen for a long time. I know the media is turning it around so that it's a bad development for me - but I'm actually quite happy about it because hopefully it will lead to the issue being settled," said the 24-year Olympic tennis champion on Wednesday (local time) on the sidelines of the Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells. The Hamburg native's former girlfriend, Olga Sharypova, accused him of hitting her in October 2019 during the Masters Series tournament in Shanghai. Zverev has already denied these and other allegations several times. Many fans in California did not seem to let the topic affect their affection and were happy about the autographs and selfies that Zverev took time to take after the session. Zverev then welcomed the fact that the ATP had announced an investigation on Monday at his first public appearance since the announcement. “I'm relatively happy that it's finally happening now. To be honest, the ATP waited a year too long,” said the fourth in the world rankings. Nature of investigation unclear The ATP condemns any form of violence or abuse and will investigate such allegations in relation to a tournament it is organizing, the organization announced at the beginning of the week - a development that Andy Murray also approves of. As one of the few professionals on the tour, the Brit had already publicly commented on the issue. “It took a little too long, but now there is a process and a procedure for allegations of this kind.” Since it is now an ongoing procedure, he does not want to go into it any further, but rather wait for the outcome of the investigation. How exactly the ATP wants to investigate the allegations that have been around for months is not yet clear, even to Zverev himself. “Sure, I’m being questioned, she’s being questioned – but I honestly have no idea,” he replied to a related question. “I go into most press conferences and talk about this crap, unfortunately.” Alexander Zverev He recently proved that he can achieve top performance despite the suspicions by reaching the semi-finals of the US Open, when a second article with allegations was published days before the start of the Grand Slam. Nevertheless, he hopes that an independent investigation “by a third party” will now help the issue to be clarified and dealt with. He said he had had an outstanding year in sport and that had been pushed into the background because of the allegations. He is therefore happy “that the ATP is finally moving its ass and doing a little something. So that you can put all this behind you and I can concentrate again on the tennis player that I am,” said Zverev. “I'm number four in the world, I won the Olympics, won two Masters tournaments and won four tournaments. And I go into most press conferences and talk about this crap, unfortunately.”

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Zverev on investigation: “Glad that ATP is moving their ass”

After the shirtless training on Court 1, Alexander Zverev went on the offensive verbally and commented hopefully on the ATP's investigation into his ex-girlfriend's allegations of violence.

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