Zverev settles out of court in domestic abuse case

Alexander Zverev has settled out of court in a Berlin domestic abuse case where he was accused of choking a former girlfriend in 2020. 

The ATP No. 4 is in contention for the French Open, playing Casper Ruud in a Friday semi-final.

No details of the settlement were available; Zverev did not have to appear in court this week, with the case moved behind closed doors a few hours after its start.

The player did not have to admit guilt as part of the undisclosed settlement with his former girlfriend, mother of his three-year-old child. He had contested a penalty order issued this spring by a judge totalling nearly EUR 500,000.

Zverev was accused of pushing the woman into the wall of a Berlin flat and choking during a domestic dispute.

Zverev has remained silent on the matter in post-match media conferences, saying the dispute would be solved through the courts and expressing his faith in the German legal system.

“I think everything is going accordingly. Everything is going okay from my side and from my point of view. There’s nothing else to say,” he said this week in Paris after reaching the semis.

Main photo:- Sascha Zverev in happier times with former girlfriend Brenda Patea

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